Discourse on the Method, part 1, ¶ 4-2

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René Descartes

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Discourse on the Method (Veitch translation)

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But I shall endeavour in this Discourse to describe the paths I have followed, and to delineate my life as in a picture, in order that each one may be able to judge of them for himself, and that in the general opinion entertained of them, as gathered from current report, I myself may have a new help towards instruction to be added to those I have been in the habit of employing.

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After all, it is possible I may be mistaken; and it is but a little copper and glass, perhaps, that I take for gold and diamonds.