"Is it difficult to perceive that our ideas originate from our senses alone; that the objects we regard as real existences, are those concerning which the senses uniformly give the same testimony."
Natural History: General and Particular [Histoire naturelle, g&eacute;n&eacute;rale et particuli&egrave;re]
Text from <u>Natural History: General and Particular, by the Count De Buffon, Translated Into English. Illustrated With Above 260 Copper-Plates, and Occasional Notes and Observations by the Translator</u> (Edinburgh: printed for William Creech, 1780-85).&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004880992.0001.002">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;