By consequence, or train of ...

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.
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 Thomas Hobbes

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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
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Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.
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We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior, and therefore not to be folded up in the napkin of an implicate faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, peace, and true religion. For though there be many things in God's Word above Reason--that is to say, which cannot by natural reason be either demonstrated or confuted--yet there is nothing contrary to it.
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That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
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