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By Rene Descartes, Donald A. Cress
This re-creation includes Donald Cress's thoroughly revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin version) and up to date corrections to Discourse on approach, bringing this model even toward Descartes's unique, whereas holding the transparent and available variety of a vintage educating version.
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It is also a very remarkable phenomenon that, although there are many animals that show more skill than we do in some of their actions, we nevertheless see that they show none at all in many other actions. Consequently, the fact that they do something better than we do does not prove that they have any intelligence, for, were that the case, they would have more of it than any of us and would excel us in everything. 59 But rather it proves that they have no intelligence at all, and that it is nature that acts in them, according to the disposition of their organsjust as we see that a clock composed exclusively of wheels and springs can count the hours and measure time more accurately than we can with all our carefulness.
The first was to obey the laws and the customs of my country, constantly 23 holding on to the religion in which, by God's grace, I had been instructed from my childhood, and governing myself in everything else according to the most moderate opinions and those furthest from excess—opinions that were commonly accepted in practice by the most judicious of those with whom I would have to live. For, beginning from then on to count my own opinions as nothing because I wished to submit them all to examination, I was assured that I could not do better than to follow those of the most judicious.
Nevertheless, those nine years slipped by before I had as yet taken any stand regarding the difficulties commonly debated among learned men, or had begun to seek the foundations of any philosophy that was more certain than the commonly accepted one. And the example of many excellent minds, who had previously had this plan and had not, it seemed to me, succeeded in it, made me imagine so much difficulty in it that perhaps I would not have dared to undertake it so soon again, if I had not seen that some had already spread the rumor that I had achieved my goal.