It is confessed, that the utmost effort of human reason is to reduce the principles, productive of natural phenomena, to a greater simplicity, and to resolve the many particular effects into a few general causes, by means of reasonings from analogy, experience, and observation.
Aitortzen da giza arrazoimenaren ahalegin nagusia fenomeno naturalen printzipio eragileak bakuntasun handiagora ekartzea dela, eta anitz efektu partikular kausa orokor gutxira, analogian, esperientzian eta behaketan oinarrituriko arrazoiketa bidez.