Voltaire, Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton : mis à la portée de tout le monde

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            ſur leurs viſages, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1125" xml:space="preserve">par l’altération qu’elles
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            portent dans leurs traits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1126" xml:space="preserve">Il n’y a perſon-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0103-01" xlink:href="note-0103-01a" xml:space="preserve">Com-
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              ment
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              nous
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              connaiſ-
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              ſons les
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              diſtan-
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              ces &
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              les gran-
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              deurs.</note>
            ne, qui ne liſe tout d’un coup ſur le front
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            d’un autre, la honte, ou la colére. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1127" xml:space="preserve">C’eſt la
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            Langue que la Nature parle à tous les yeux;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1128" xml:space="preserve">mais l’expérience ſeule apprend ce langa-
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            ge. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1129" xml:space="preserve">Auſſi l’expérience ſeule nous apprend,
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            que quand un objet eſt trop loin, nous le
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            voyons confuſément & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1130" xml:space="preserve">faiblement. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1131" xml:space="preserve">Delà
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            nous formons des idées, qui enſuite accom-
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            pagnent toujours la ſenſation de la vûe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1132" xml:space="preserve">
              <lb/>
            Ainſi tout homme qui, à dix pas, aura vu
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            ſon cheval haut de cinq pieds, s’il voit,
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            quelques minutes après, ce cheval comme
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            un mouton, ſon ame, par un jugement
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            involontaire, conclud à l’inſtant que ce che-
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            val eſt très-loin.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1134" xml:space="preserve">Il eſt bien vrai que, quand je vois mon
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            cheval gros comme un mouton, il ſe for-
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            me alors dans mon œil une peinture plus pe-
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            tite, un angle plus aigu; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1135" xml:space="preserve">mais c’eſt-là ce
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            qui accompagne, non ce qui cauſe mon
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            ſentiment. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1136" xml:space="preserve">De même il ſe fait un autre é-
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            branlement dans mon cerveau, quand je
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            vois un homme rougir de honte, que quand
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            je le vois rougir de colére; </s>
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