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that our tools are too blunt to
touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or
lean all round, more on the false than on the true.

Man is so happily formed that he has no... good of the true, and several
excellent of the false. Let us now see how much... But the most powerful
cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason.

83. We must thus begin the chapter on the deceptive powers. Man is only a
subject full of error, natural and ineffaceable, without grace. Nothing
shows him the truth. Everything deceives him. These two sources of truth,
reason and the senses, besides being both wanting in sincerity, deceive each
other in turn. The senses mislead the Reason with false appearances, and
receive from Reason in their turn the same trickery which they apply to her;
Reason has her revenge. The passions of the soul trouble the senses, and
make false impressions upon them. They rival each other in falsehood and
deception.

But besides those errors which arise accidentally and through lack of
intelligence, with these heterogeneous faculties...

84. The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a
fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its
own measure, as when talking of God.

85. Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few
possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination
magnifies into a mountain. Another turn of the imagination would make us
discover this