Dialogue

 1 1|   When is the mind said to be active?~HYL. When it produces,
 2 1|  therefore is to be accounted ACTIVE in its perceptions so far
 3 1|     plucking this flower I am active; because I do it by the
 4 1|     since you distinguish the ACTIVE and PASSIVE in every perception,
 5 1|    that pain, be it as little active as you please, should exist
 6 2| impassive, indivisible, pure, active being. Many more difficulties
 7 2|      an unextended, thinking, active being, which is the cause
 8 2|  which produced the motion is active.~PHIL. Now, I desire to
 9 2|      suppose any efficient or active Cause of our ideas, other
10 3|      an agent, a being purely active?~PHIL. I acknowledge it.~
11 3|       spirit; for these being active, cannot be represented by
12 3|     in MYSELF some sort of an active thinking image of the Deity.
13 3|       subject of ideas, or an active thing the cause of them.
14 3|    somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives,
15 3|      it.~PHIL. Is it not also active?~HYL. Without doubt. Otherwise,
16 3|       MATTER to an unextended active being? And, SECONDLY, Whether
17 3|       is thinking, as well as active and unextended?~PHIL. My
18 3| therefore, when I speak of an active being, I am obliged to mean
19 3|  power in their cause; God is active and omnipotent, but Matter