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

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            voiois ſous un tel angle: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1150" xml:space="preserve">nulle expérien-
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            ce ne plioit mon ame à démentir les traits
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            imprimés dans ma rétine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1151" xml:space="preserve">mais dès que j’ai
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            jugé que c’étoit un homme, la liaiſon miſe
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            par l’expérience, dans mon cerveau, entre
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            l’idée d’un homme & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1152" xml:space="preserve">l’idée de la hauteur
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            de cinq à ſix pieds, me force, ſans que j’y
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            penſe, à imaginer, par un jugement ſoudain,
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            que je vois un homme de telle hauteur,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1153" xml:space="preserve">à voir une telle hauteur en effet.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1155" xml:space="preserve">Il faut abſolument conclure de tout ce-
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              appre-
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              nons à
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              voir
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              comme
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              à lire.</note>
            ci, que les diſtances, les grandeurs, les
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            ſituations, ne ſont pas, à proprement par-
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            ler, des choſes viſibles, c’eſt-à-dire, ne
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            ſont pas les objets propres & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1156" xml:space="preserve">immédiats de
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            la vûe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1157" xml:space="preserve">L’objet propre & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1158" xml:space="preserve">immédiat de la
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            vûe, n’eſt autre choſe que la lumiere colo-
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            rée: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1159" xml:space="preserve">tout le reſte, nous ne le ſentons qu’à
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            la longue & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1160" xml:space="preserve">par expérience. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1161" xml:space="preserve">Nous appre-
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            nons à voir, préciſément comme nous ap-
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            prenons à parler & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1162" xml:space="preserve">à lire. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1163" xml:space="preserve">La différence
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            eſt, que l’art de voir eſt plus facile, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1164" xml:space="preserve">que la
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            Nature eſt également à tous notre Maî-
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            tre.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1166" xml:space="preserve">Les jugemens ſoudains, preſque </s>
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