Dialogue

 1 1|      object therefore cannot act on the eye; nor consequently
 2 1|    sensation I take to be an act of the mind perceiving;
 3 1|     that tulip. But then the act of perceiving those colours
 4 1|     a perception without any act of the mind, it were possible
 5 1|   change anything, but by an act of the will?~HYL. It cannot.~
 6 1|   smelling?~HYL. NO.~PHIL. I act too in drawing the air through
 7 2| numberless ideas; and, by an act of my will, can form a great
 8 2|     of our ideas, not by any act of will, or spiritual efficiency,
 9 2|  that you imagine God cannot act as well without it; or that
10 2|     be performed by the mere act of our wills? Thus, for
11 2|       when and what He is to act, by an unthinking substance?
12 2|     Continue, good Hylas, to act the same ingenuous part,
13 3|   your mind, you may perhaps act as wisely as he that should
14 3|    and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer
15 3|     do yourself, by a reflex act, neither do you mediately
16 3|     Is this fair dealing? To act consistently, you must either
17 3|    produced by what doth not act, is repugnant. But, it is
18 3| therefore you suppose God to act by the mediation of an instrument
19 3|   sinful; though the outward act be the very same with that
20 3|     nay, against every other act of the Deity, discoverable