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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: more mature age (being at that time but twenty-three), and had first of
all employed much of my time in preparation for the work, as well by
eradicating from my mind all the erroneous opinions I had up to that
moment accepted, as by amassing variety of experience to afford materials
for my reasonings, and by continually exercising myself in my chosen
method with a view to increased skill in its application.
PART III
And finally, as it is not enough, before commencing to rebuild the house
in which we live, that it be pulled down, and materials and builders
provided, or that we engage in the work ourselves, according to a plan
which we have beforehand carefully drawn out, but as it is likewise
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