Discourse on Method

John Veitch's translation, 1850. 6 parts, about 22,994 words, 2 hours of reading. Source edition.

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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not…
Part I, opening sentence · Read it in Part I
I think, therefore I am, was so certain and of such evidence, that no ground of doubt, however extravagant, could be alleged by the sceptics capable of shaking it.
Part IV · Read it in Part IV
Render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature.
Part VI · Read it in Part VI
Descartes argues that machines could be built to imitate animals perfectly, but never to use words to answer what is said to them, and that speech therefore marks the presence of reason.
Part V · Read it in Part V

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Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by John Veitch. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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