Discourse on the Method, part 1, ¶ 8-4

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René Descartes

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DeDuck Harbor (mapcarta.com) DeDuck Harbor is in Island, Washington. DeDuck Harbor is situated nearby to the hamlet Rodena Beach, as well as near the neighborhood Admirals Cove.

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Discourse on the Method (Veitch translation)

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Besides, fictitious narratives lead us to imagine the possibility of many events that are impossible; and even the most faithful histories, if they do not wholly misrepresent matters, or exaggerate their importance to render the account of them more worthy of perusal, omit, at least, almost always the meanest and least striking of the attendant circumstances; hence it happens that the remainder does not represent the truth, and that such as regulate their conduct by examples drawn from this source, are apt to fall into the extravagances of the knight-errants of Romance, and to entertain projects that exceed their powers.