Although this idea that we receive through the immediate union we have with the Word of God, sovereign Reason, never deceives us by itself as do those we receive because of the union we have with our bodies, which represent things to us other than a'l they are, yet I have no hesitation in saying that we make such ill use of the best of things that the inentdicable presence of this idea is one of the main causes of all of the mind's disordered abstractions.