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"The Castle of Scepticism"
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Date: w. 1767, dated 1773 [unpublished in period]
"To show that all inferences of reason are false or uncertain, and that the understanding acting alone does entirely subvert itself, and prove by argument that by argument nothing can be proved, he has contrived a puppet of mushrooms, cork, cobwebs, gossamer, and other fungous and flimsy material...
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)