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— See Eihliottv. Francoise, torn, xxvii. p 353. 178 STATE OF LEARNIIJG AND PHILOSOPHY. Sect. 1. their extensive knowledge both of natural philosophy and mathematics. He had cer- tainly few disciples in his own country; but, among the English, who in his time were re- markable for their application to studies of a physical and mathematical kind, a considera- ble number adopted his philosophical system, It may here be observed, that even those emi- nent philosophers and divines, such as Which- co...t, Gr^le, Cudworth, and More, who entered the lists'with Hobbes, (whose doctrine came nearer to the principles of Gassendi than to the system of Des-Cartes,) and revived ancient Platonism,' in order to crush under its weight the philosopher of Malmesbury, placed Gas- sendi and Plato in the same class, and ex- plained the sentiments of the latter in Such a manner as to make them appear quite agreea- ble to the principles of the former.* XXXIV. From this period must be dated the famous schism that divided the philoso- phical world into two great sects, wJiioh, though they almost agree upon those points that are of the greatest utility and importance in hu- man life,- differ widely about the principles of human knowledge, and the fundamental points whence the philosopher must proceed in his search of truth.
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