line, this can be understood; for a chain of islets would

his philosophical studies in full liberty.

Descartes was very right, for his contemporaries were not knowing

enough to improve and enlighten his understanding, and were capable

of little else than of giving him uneasiness.

He left France purely to go in search of truth, which was then

persecuted by the wretched philosophy of the schools. However, he

found that reason was as much disguised and depraved in the

universities of Holland, into which he withdrew, as in his own

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