XXVIII. The limitations with which rigid scepticism may be mitigated, are
innumerable; consequently, scepticism will appear more or less absurd,
according to the various exceptions with which it is corrected; but this
is a matter of such extent, that to reason upon it with any degree of
precision would fill a large volume. I shall therefore proceed to treat
of scepticism, as confined within the line of physics, which is the
point, to which I proposed at first to restrain my arguments on this
subject.