Dialogue

 1 1|      gone of late in this way of thinking, that I have quitted several
 2 1|         are, can exist only in a thinking substance; may we not conclude
 3 1|     nothing else but that I am a thinking being, affected with variety
 4 1|         mistake enough. As I was thinking of a tree in a solitary
 5 2| understand by it, an unextended, thinking, active being, which is
 6 2|          substance nor accident, thinking nor extended being, neither
 7 2|        from and exclusive of all thinking and corporeal beings, all
 8 3|          cannot for my life help thinking that snow is white, and
 9 3|       that I, who am a spirit or thinking substance, exist as certainly
10 3|    MYSELF some sort of an active thinking image of the Deity. And,
11 3|        is, my own soul, mind, or thinking principle, I evidently know
12 3|     according to your own way of thinking, and in consequence of your
13 3|      ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives,
14 3|      consistent with allowing to thinking rational beings, in the
15 3|         can a man be mistaken in thinking the moon a plain lucid surface,
16 3|          spirit imply that it is thinking, as well as active and unextended?~
17 3|       reader?~HYL. I cannot help thinking so.~PHIL. And are not all
18 3|          possibility of Matter’s thinking, origin of ideas, the manner