Dialogue

 1 1|       thousand nameless beauties of nature inspire the soul with secret
 2 1|            to the plain dictates of nature and common sense, I find
 3 1|        about the plainest things in nature, I am content for once to
 4 1|            that there is no body in nature really hot?~HYL. I have
 5 1|         nothing in this contrary to nature and the truth of things?~
 6 1|            best sets forth the real nature of the thing, or what it
 7 1|           animals whose eyes are by nature framed to perceive those
 8 1|             not to inquire into the nature of pure intellect and its
 9 1|         that should really exist in nature which implies a repugnancy
10 1|       therefore somewhat in its own nature entirely distinct from extension?~
11 1|            to the standing order of nature) be affected with, after
12 1|       things a stable and permanent nature, independent of our senses;
13 1|        plain, have a fixed and real nature, which remains the same
14 2|              that they proceed from nature, and are conformable to
15 2|          the meanest productions of nature! What delicacy, what beauty,
16 2|          which the unseen Author of nature actuates the universe. How
17 2|         sciences, that they suppose Nature, or the Divine wisdom, to
18 2|          there not be still a Third Nature besides Spirits and Ideas?
19 2|           of a limited and inferior nature, which CONCURS in the production
20 2|             mean you by the general nature or notion of INSTRUMENT?~
21 2|         compliance with the laws of nature, or those conditions prescribed
22 2|           PHIL. And what may be the nature of that inactive unthinking
23 2|          HYL. I know nothing of its nature.~PHIL. Proceed then to the
24 2|             ideas, or the course of nature, be not sufficiently accounted
25 2|           should define exactly the nature of that unknown being. Only
26 2|            to shew me that thing in nature which needs Matter to explain
27 3|             too narrow and too few. Nature certainly never intended
28 3|        whereof we can know the real nature, or what it is in itself.~
29 3|   constitution, their true and real nature, you are utterly in the
30 3|            as they are in their own nature.~PHIL. But surely, Hylas,
31 3|            no absolute existence in nature. And in pretending to distinguish
32 3|            that I know not the real nature of any one thing in the
33 3|             them is in its own true nature, I declare positively I
34 3|       ignorant of the true and real nature of things, but even of their
35 3|     corporeal thing should exist in nature.~PHIL. You amaze me. Was
36 3|           only ignorant of the true nature of everything, but you know
37 3|          sceptic with regard to the nature of things, so neither am
38 3|            by us termed the LAWS OF NATURE.~HYL. Answer me, Philonous.
39 3|         like unto, or represent the nature of God?~PHIL. It cannot.~
40 3|      necessarily, and from the very nature of its existence, perceived
41 3|             of all the phenomena in nature? Can there be anything more
42 3| philosophers are wont to ascribe to Nature, Matter, Fate, or the like
43 3|        Author of all the motions in nature, you make Him the Author
44 3|     operations vulgarly ascribed to Nature. I farther observe that
45 3|          have it so, but some THIRD NATURE distinct from Matter and
46 3|            you know not what) Third Nature. Thus, I prove it to be
47 3|          imperfection in the Divine nature: which, you acknowledged,
48 3|          motions. By the law of our nature, we are affected upon every
49 3|      correspondence in the order of nature, between two sets of ideas,
50 3|             the laws and methods of nature, which is a part of knowledge
51 3|            know nothing of the real nature of things, and can never
52 3|            you, therefore, the true nature of a thing is discovered
53 3|         better to discover the true nature of a body, if it were discoverable
54 3|           to have some connexion in nature, either with respect to
55 3|           he is said to know of the nature of things. What, therefore,
56 3|      unchanged, unperceivable, real Nature, marked by each name. Which
57 3|         should be any real thing in nature. The result of all which
58 3|            the wisest way to follow nature, trust your senses, and,
59 3|         CHERRY you, mean an unknown nature, distinct from all those
60 3|             we now call the laws of nature? You may call this a RELATIVE,
61 3|        discoverable by the light of nature? None of which can WE conceive,
62 3|          unlimited perfections: His nature, therefore, is incomprehensible
63 3|           conceptions of the Divine nature, which is unavoidable on
64 3|          are not all the effects of nature easy and intelligible? If
65 3|     according to the fixed order of nature. For, herein consists that
66 3|           is attended with. I am by nature lazy; and this would be