BOOK I PART III
If we consider this argument fromeducation
in a proper light, it will appear very convinc-
ing; and the more so, that it is founded on
one of the most common phaenomena, that is
any where to be met with. I am persuaded,
that upon examination we shall find more than
one half of those opinions, that prevail among
mankind, to be owing to education, and that
the principles, which are thus implicitely em-
braced, overballance those, which are owing
either to abstract reasoning or experience. As
liars, by the frequent repetition of their lies,
come at last to remember them; so the judg-
ment, or rather the imagination, by the like
means, may have ideas so strongly imprinted
on it, and conceive them in so full a light, that
they may operate upon the mind in the same
manner with those, which the senses, mem-
ory or reason present to us. But as education