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1 3| into the most hopeless and abandoned scepticism. Now, give me 2 2| mind? Let any one of those abettors of impiety but look into 3 1| man delights in, another abhors. And how could this be, 4 1| of ours, and whose bodies abound with different humours, 5 3| and this would be a mighty abridgment in knowledge. What doubts, 6 1| did not expect to find you abroad so early.~HYLAS. It is indeed 7 1| consider or treat of them abstractedly. But, how doth it follow 8 2| relative notion of it; where an abstraction is made from perceiving 9 2| it is liable to all the absurdities of the common hypothesis, 10 3| probably have spared yourself abundance of trouble in objecting; 11 3| are you not guilty of some abuse of language in this?~PHIL. 12 2| distances, far sunk in the abyss of space. Now you must call 13 3| the same principles that Academics, Cartesians, and the like 14 1| there was nothing in the accounts I heard of you.~PHIL. Pray, 15 1| vanish upon a more close and accurate inspection which is afforded 16 3| But I have been so long accustomed to the term MATTER that 17 1| without the mind. But by this acknowledgment I must not be supposed to 18 1| of your senses came you acquainted with that being?~HYL. It 19 2| conviction, that hearty acquiescence, which attends demonstration. 20 2| unseen Author of nature actuates the universe. How vivid 21 1| thing that is LOUD, SWEET, ACUTE, or GRAVE.~HYL. I see you 22 1| therefore wonder if expressions adapted to exact philosophic notions 23 2| to perceive clearly, and adhere firmly to the truth? No; 24 2| contrivance, order, and adjustment of things—an infinite Mind 25 2| the planets, are they not admirable for use and order? Were 26 3| can never be sufficiently admired; God is infinitely wise 27 2| glorious luminaries that adorn the high arch of heaven. 28 3| Author of murder, sacrilege, adultery, and the like heinous sins.~ 29 3| station, that, in case he advances towards the moon or tower, 30 1| about THEM; only I would advise you to bethink yourself, 31 2| baffle the most strenuous advocate for Atheism. Those miserable 32 3| shift to bustle through the affairs of life. But philosophers 33 1| in all ages, through an affectation of being distinguished from 34 1| my denial, as you in your affirmation.~HYL. Hold, Philonous, I 35 3| heathens and philosophers have affirmed, but whoever entertains 36 1| doubt of it, than he who affirmeth it with the same degree 37 1| accurate inspection which is afforded us by a microscope. Then’ 38 3| for the same reason, from aft other sensible things and 39 3| beings? Or have they any agency included in them?~PHIL. 40 1| whose minute particles being agitated with a brisk motion, and 41 3| now I think on it, I must, agreeably to my former concessions, 42 3| seems to have kept me from agreeing with you more than this 43 1| exhausted receiver of an air-pump sends forth no sound. The 44 2| methought I had some dilute and airy notion of Pure Entity in 45 3| impossible you or any man alive should know it. All you 46 2| brain; that is, by some alterations in an idea, whether sensible 47 1| suspending, exerting, or altering, our faculties or organs 48 2| is not the veil of night alternately drawn over her face, and 49 1| heterogeneous rays of light, alters the colour of any object, 50 3| exist in nature.~PHIL. You amaze me. Was ever anything more 51 1| Philonous. I am at present so amazed to see myself ensnared, 52 3| perhaps be obliged to use some AMBAGES, and ways of speech not 53 3| in effect, be found to amount to no more than this.—that 54 3| hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, 55 3| conformable to the general analogy of language; most part of 56 3| whatsoever, that frenzy of the ancient and modern Sceptics, built 57 3| most celebrated among the ancients, but even divers modern 58 3| incommensurable quantities, of the angle of contact, of the asymptotes 59 2| indeed, if you please, annex to the word MATTER a contrary 60 3| MATTER as I please, and annexing it to a collection of sensible 61 3| HYL. Supposing you were annihilated, cannot you conceive it 62 3| would do after my supposed annihilation. And, as the same is true 63 3| it hath been sufficiently answered as well as the rest. Nothing 64 3| senses, and, laying aside all anxious thought about unknown natures 65 | anywhere 66 2| perceive, imagine, or in anywise apprehend.~PHIL. Pray where 67 1| not thence conclude the apparitions in a dream to be without 68 3| I am content, Hylas, to appeal to the common sense of the 69 1| convince you otherwise than by appealing to your own sense. But what 70 1| thought apparent which, appearing only at a distance, vanish 71 3| your senses; and seem to applaud yourself that in this you 72 3| concerning the ideas he apprehends to be connected with those 73 3| Not to mention that the apprehension of a distant Deity naturally 74 1| this, I doubt not, you are apprised of. For my part, I have 75 1| OR DISTANCE?~PHIL. Upon approaching a distant object, do the 76 3| vain and uncertain. What we approve today, we condemn tomorrow. 77 3| PETITIO PRINCIPII. One is apt to say—The unknown substances 78 2| dress with the seasons? How aptly are the elements disposed! 79 2| luminaries that adorn the high arch of heaven. The motion and 80 3| ectypal or natural, the other archetypal and eternal? The former 81 2| void? Do they not measure areas round the sun ever proportioned 82 2| them?~HYL. We have already argued on those points. I have 83 3| of change: and all change argues imperfection.~PHIL. Pray 84 3| inferred. Pray is not this arguing in a circle?~HYL. In the 85 3| whether the difficulty arises from the NON-EXISTENCE OF 86 3| Philonous.~PHIL. But, to arm you against all future objections, 87 2| that you are in truth an arrant sceptic?~HYL. It is too 88 1| substance.~HYL. You have an artful way, Philonous, of diverting 89 3| of the soul, those great articles of religion, are they not 90 1| colours on objects: because by artificial managements they may be 91 3| notable progress in the arts and sciences. But it is 92 3| from whence it rose: its ascent, as well as descent, proceeding 93 1| of light is necessary for ascertaining that true colour, and distinguishing 94 3| philosophers are wont to ascribe to Nature, Matter, Fate, 95 3| those operations vulgarly ascribed to Nature. I farther observe 96 1| it was delude time. You asked whether heat and cold, sweetness 97 1| was?~PHIL. My reason for asking was, because in saying, 98 3| them.~HYL. I see you can assault me with my own weapons.~ 99 3| not therefore evident the assertors of Matter destroy the plain 100 2| I entirely disclaim. He asserts an absolute external world, 101 1| with the same degree of assurance.~HYL. True.~PHIL. And, consequently, 102 2| setting aside all help of astronomy and natural philosophy, 103 3| angle of contact, of the asymptotes to curves, or the like, 104 3| hath it not furnished the atheists and infidels of all ages 105 2| current proper signification attached to a common name in any 106 3| If there are difficulties ATTENDING IMMATERIALISM, there are 107 2| hearty acquiescence, which attends demonstration. I find myself 108 1| sound, may with truth be attributed to motion?~HYL. It may.~ 109 1| real thing, which is not AUDIBLE, be like a SOUND? In a word, 110 1| vibration, which by the auditory nerves being communicated 111 3| the rule of language, hath authorised: nothing being more usual, 112 3| the generality of mankind averse from the notions I espouse, 113 3| follows that in truth their aversion is against your notions 114 3| of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of 115 3| things, or in behalf of that avowed utter ignorance of their 116 2| pains: the attention must be awakened and detained by a frequent 117 3| consistency, or the old known axiom, NOTHING CAN GIVE TO ANOTHER 118 3| Materialists and me.~HYL. Ay, Philonous, but they suppose 119 2| scattered throughout the whole azure vault! Yet, if you take 120 3| a sort of unaccountable backwardness that I find in myself towards 121 1| jesting, or have a very bad memory. Though indeed we 122 2| of discourse, oppose and baffle the most strenuous advocate 123 3| be as you say.~PHIL. As a balance, therefore, to this weight 124 2| your thoughts from this ball of earth to all those glorious 125 1| are said to see a red-hot bar of iron; the solidity and 126 2| Or is there anything so barefacedly groundless and unreasonable 127 1| that your belief is founded barely on the possibility of its 128 3| and falls back into the basin from whence it rose: its 129 3| experience that all bodies (bating the small inequalities, 130 3| the killing an enemy in a battle, or putting a criminal legally 131 2| to advance I would gladly bear it.~HYL. I think I have 132 | became 133 | becomes 134 3| acknowledge something new to befall the Deity; which implies 135 3| therefore, nothing is new, or begins to be, in respect of the 136 3| corporeal things, or in behalf of that avowed utter ignorance 137 3| historian. I ever before believed the Mosaic account of the 138 3| strengthened the depraved bent of the mind towards Atheism 139 1| them as you please. Only, I beseech you, make me understand 140 1| Think you the senses were bestowed upon all animals for their 141 1| only I would advise you to bethink yourself, whether, considering 142 3| above all things, you should beware of imposing on yourself 143 2| of prejudice, or a wrong bias on the understanding, can 144 2| sense nor imagination are big enough to comprehend the 145 1| wild but sweet notes of birds, the fragrant bloom upon 146 3| likewise they did before my birth, and would do after my supposed 147 2| disputation I may justly blame you for so frequently changing 148 1| several qualities united or blended together form entire sensible 149 1| notes of birds, the fragrant bloom upon the trees and flowers, 150 1| you.~PHIL. In reading a book, what I immediately perceive 151 3| objects are in your mind, as books in your study: or that things 152 1| that if we suppose a man born blind was on a sudden made 153 1| world. This however might be borne, if their paradoxes and 154 3| being signified by words borrowed from sensible things; as 155 3| there is no difficulty at bottom in this point; or, if there 156 2| enough to comprehend the boundless extent, with all its glittering 157 3| will no longer spend my breath in defence of it. But whatever 158 1| should smell every time I breathed in that manner?~HYL. True.~ 159 1| through my nose; because my breathing so rather than otherwise 160 2| believing. Take here in brief my meaning:—It is evident 161 1| those above enumerated; or, briefly, ALL SENSIBLE QUALITIES 162 2| you take the telescope, it brings into your sight a new host 163 1| particles being agitated with a brisk motion, and in various manners 164 3| or the appearance of the broken oar in the water, must be 165 1| and ordure affect those brute animals that feed on them 166 3| original: while they began to build their schemes not so much 167 2| very remote from it. He builds on the most abstract general 168 3| that, granting this, the bulk of mankind will take no 169 1| change happening in the burnouts of the eye, or a variation 170 1| doth.~PHIL. And when a coal burns your finger, doth it any 171 3| all that make a shift to bustle through the affairs of life. 172 3| purpose. But I entreat you calmly to look into your own thoughts, 173 1| differently coloured by candle-light from what they do in the 174 3| whence the existence of CARTER is inferred. Pray is not 175 3| principles that Academics, Cartesians, and the like sects usually 176 3| at all. I am of a vulgar cast, simple enough to believe 177 3| was absurd. So you are caught in a plain contradiction.~ 178 1| the drum of the ear, it causeth a vibration, which by the 179 3| which they would be more cautious of, in case they thought 180 3| that not only the most celebrated among the ancients, but 181 2| a golden mountain, or a centaur.~HYL. I acknowledge it; 182 2| worlds revolving round the central fires; and in those worlds 183 3| sensation at all. We are chained to a body: that is to say, 184 3| remaining unaltered, the chambers are all pulled down, and 185 3| ideas, fleeting indeed, and changeable;—however, not changed at 186 1| produces, puts an end to, or changes, anything.~PHIL. Can the 187 2| much as a rock, a desert, a chaos, or confused jumble of atoms; 188 3| can be put on the first chapter of Genesis may be conceived 189 3| who are not ashamed to charge me WITH SCEPTICISM. This 190 3| gardener why he thinks yonder cherry-tree exists in the garden, and 191 1| that feed on them out of choice, with the same smells which 192 3| persons who perceived, might choose the denomination of DIFFERENT 193 2| is no more than I and all Christians hold; nay, and all others 194 3| is not this arguing in a circle?~HYL. In the premise I only 195 2| operation, sign, or other circumstance, there may reasonably be 196 3| needless to confirm it by citations.~HYL. You are not aware, 197 2| merely, it can have no more claim to existence than a golden 198 3| they not proved with the clearest and most immediate evidence? 199 1| they vanish upon a more close and accurate inspection 200 2| Entity in abstract; but, upon closer attention, it hath quite 201 3| very meat I eat, and the cloth I wear, have nothing in 202 3| different species, because their clothes were not of the same colour.~ 203 3| philosophers have thought Matter co-eternal with the Deity. Lay these 204 3| either with respect to co-existence or succession; all which 205 1| It doth.~PHIL. And when a coal burns your finger, doth 206 1| plain all sensible qualities coexist, or to them appear as being 207 1| that the red and yellow are coexistent with the extension; is it 208 1| colours appear to the eye as coexisting in the same place with extension 209 3| please, and annexing it to a collection of sensible qualities subsisting 210 1| PHIL. Hark; is not this the college bell?~HYL. It rings for 211 1| bodies appear differently coloured by candle-light from what 212 3| forced upwards, in a round column, to a certain height; at 213 1| many sensible qualities, or combinations of sensible qualities?~HYL. 214 3| upon a little thought, men combine together several ideas, 215 1| acknowledge it.~PHIL. How cometh it to pass then, Hylas, 216 2| to reproach me with. My comfort is, you are as much a sceptic 217 3| the offices of life, as comfortably and conveniently as if they 218 1| distinction, colour, or comment whatsoever, why do you not 219 3| the same, whether a person commits an action with or without 220 1| means deprive myself of your company, for my thoughts always 221 1| But, to return to your comparison of Caesar’s picture, it 222 1| this real existence equally compatible to all degrees of heat, 223 2| in a much more easy and compendious way, what shall we think 224 3| no ground for dislike or complaint against any particular opinion 225 3| considered, is nothing but a complexion of such qualities or ideas 226 2| any effect, but merely in compliance with the laws of nature, 227 3| we reject this? Is it to comply with a ridiculous sceptical 228 2| all particular instruments composeth the general notion.~PHIL. 229 1| with a certain symmetry and composition of the whole?~HYL. Nothing 230 3| in bodies are in a direct compounded reason of the velocities 231 2| POWERFUL, AND GOOD, BEYOND COMPREHENSION. MARK it well; I do not 232 2| relapsing into your old exploded conceit, of a moveable, and consequently 233 3| the inadequateness of our conceptions of the Divine nature, which 234 3| things which secures all the concerns of life, and distinguishes 235 3| not evident this objection concludes equally against a creation 236 3| Scepticism: but, in the end, your conclusions are directly opposite to 237 1| arguments which you admitted as conclusive against the Secondary Qualities 238 2| effects, or in a fortuitous concourse of atoms; those wild imaginations 239 2| and inferior nature, which CONCURS in the production of our 240 3| What we approve today, we condemn tomorrow. We keep a stir 241 2| very fault you just now condemned with so much reason? I do 242 3| and I warrant it shall conduct you through as many perplexities 243 1| sense had then been first conferred on us. As for other things, 244 2| imagination: though, it must be confessed, these creatures of the 245 3| determined by most voices, I am confident you would give up the point, 246 1| are only the motions and configurations of certain insensible particles 247 2| vulgar, and were not always confined to the common acceptation 248 3| that it were needless to confirm it by citations.~HYL. You 249 1| altogether in the light. And what confirms me in this opinion is, that 250 1| the pin; you should not, conformably to what you have now granted, 251 1| inasmuch as they have a conformity or resemblance to our ideas?~ 252 2| should nevertheless be confounded with each other, by those 253 3| individual, the endless number of confusion of names would render language 254 3| I say, is nothing but a congeries of sensible impressions, 255 3| to refer it to your own conscience. Are you not satisfied there 256 3| evidently proved, withhold your consent on account of objections 257 1| than it, as bodies of some considerable dimension; though at the 258 2| REALITY of sensible things consisted in AN ABSOLUTE EXISTENCE 259 3| without any regard either to consistency, or the old known axiom, 260 1| acknowledged that GREAT and SMALL, consisting merely in the relation which 261 3| power and goodness, are as conspicuous as the existence of sensible 262 3| For, herein consists that constancy and truth of things which 263 3| of sense. Their internal constitution, their true and real nature, 264 3| quantities, of the angle of contact, of the asymptotes to curves, 265 1| laying aside the words, they contemplate the bare ideas, I believe 266 2| natural philosophy, all contemplation of the contrivance, order, 267 1| distances?~HYL. They are in a continual change.~PHIL. Sight therefore 268 1| that is, our ideas, are continually changing, upon every alteration 269 1| farther onward; there being a continued series of visible objects 270 3| truth, and reality of things continues the same. In common talk, 271 3| disputes about its extent, continuity, homogeneity, gravity, divisibility, & 272 3| themselves and me?~HYL. I cannot contradict you.~PHIL. Moses tells us 273 3| by the vulgar, merely for conveniency and dispatch in the common 274 3| life, as comfortably and conveniently as if they really knew the 275 3| knew the things they are conversant about.~HYL. They do so: 276 3| ideas; but His ideas are not conveyed to Him by sense, as ours 277 3| same with regard to the Copernican system. We do not here perceive 278 1| to distinguish the true copy from all the false ones?~ 279 3| motions means no more than a correspondence in the order of nature, 280 2| contains in it perfections correspondent to each created being; and 281 3| Powers without the mind, corresponding to those ideas. And, as 282 2| Look! are not the fields covered with a delightful verdure? 283 3| resigned to their great Creator. I say, moreover, that, 284 3| to make the creation more credible? Nay, hath it not furnished 285 3| in a battle, or putting a criminal legally to death, is not 286 3| shall perceive the same crookedness; or that it would affect 287 2| thoughts and lost in the crowd of worlds. Is not the whole 288 3| contact, of the asymptotes to curves, or the like, sufficient 289 1| it would probably have cut short your discourse.~PHIL. 290 2| since this is no more than I daily experience in myself, inasmuch 291 3| government and religion are dangerous, and ought to be discountenanced, 292 3| unphilosophical part of the world, I dare say, mean no more)—then 293 1| the sun? Or is light or darkness the effect of your volition?~ 294 3| putting a criminal legally to death, is not thought sinful; 295 1| course of this conversation, declared yourself on those points; 296 3| or be created, when God decreed they should become perceptible 297 2| BUT I deny that THE cause deducible by reason can properly be 298 3| Substance—either by probable deduction, or necessary consequence. 299 3| And this plunges us yet deeper in uncertainty. Again, when 300 3| you are plunged into the deepest and most deplorable scepticism 301 3| It is your business to defend your own opinion. Can anything 302 2| do not expect you should define exactly the nature of that 303 3| according to their sundry definitions of this notion (for it is 304 2| productions of nature! What delicacy, what beauty, what contrivance, 305 1| Philonous, I now see what it was delude time. You asked whether 306 1| altogether indifferent to their demonstrations. But, when laying aside 307 3| immediate evidence nor a demonstrative knowledge of the existence 308 1| Is not this sufficient to denominate a man a SCEPTIC?~PHIL. Shall 309 3| perceived, might choose the denomination of DIFFERENT things. But 310 3| used by philosophers to denote the immediate objects of 311 1| this last question, to have departed from what you then thought.~ 312 1| since you make so light of departing from common phrases and 313 3| own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my 314 3| finite extension; which depends on that supposition—But 315 3| into the deepest and most deplorable scepticism that ever man 316 3| favoured and strengthened the depraved bent of the mind towards 317 3| difference; and I am not for depriving you of any one thing that 318 3| powers, ultimately indeed derived from God, but immediately 319 3| the resistance of the air) descend with an equal velocity; 320 3| the motion therefore of descending bodies, and consequently 321 3| its ascent, as well as descent, proceeding from the same 322 1| than it would in case it described only a mile in three hours.~ 323 1| space? Thus a body that describes a mile in an hour moves 324 1| the time it takes up in describing any given space? Thus a 325 2| feeble narrow sense cannot descry innumerable worlds revolving 326 2| horror? Even in rocks and deserts is there not an agreeable 327 2| then, do those philosophers deserve, who would deprive these 328 3| willed before, but only designed to will? If the former, 329 1| Pardon me, Hylas, if I am desirous clearly to apprehend your 330 1| purpose; but that is what I despair of seeing proved.~PHIL. 331 1| Figures and extension being despatched, we proceed next to MOTION. 332 3| the assertors of Matter destroy the plain obvious sense 333 2| attention must be awakened and detained by a frequent repetition 334 1| of sensation; how can any determinate material objects be properly 335 3| willingly acquiesce in the determination of any indifferent person. 336 3| surface, about a foot in diameter; or a square tower, seen 337 1| metaphysical notions to the plain dictates of nature and common sense, 338 3| sound? If you should say, We differed in our notions; for that 339 1| all specific and numerical differences, as the schools call them.~ 340 1| that the same bodies appear differently coloured by candle-light 341 2| glance, methought I had some dilute and airy notion of Pure 342 1| bodies of some considerable dimension; though at the same time 343 1| time in itself of different dimensions?~HYL. That were absurd to 344 1| PHIL. Is it not plain from DIOPTRICS that microscopes make the 345 1| than any other colour? Or, directing your open eyes towards yonder 346 3| but immediately under the direction of their own wills, which 347 1| consequences of general disadvantage to mankind. But the mischief 348 1| more vividly pleasing or disagreeable than the ideas of extension, 349 3| If so, whence comes that disagreement? Why is not the same figure, 350 1| either changed, or totally disappear? Nay, all other circumstances 351 2| you have offered hath been disapproved and rejected by yourself. 352 3| demonstration? Or will you disbelieve the Providence of God, because 353 3| not to mention your having discarded those archetypes) so may 354 1| they appear to you scarce discernible, or at best as so many visible 355 2| ideas, which I entirely disclaim. He asserts an absolute 356 1| PHIL. Can the mind produce, discontinue, or change anything, but 357 3| reason why they should be discouraged in philosophy? The making 358 3| talk. And in philosophical discourses it seems the best way to 359 1| up with a subject I was discoursing of last night, that finding 360 1| But a microscope often discovers colours in an object different 361 2| before. But I think we have discussed the point sufficiently for 362 3| But God is a Pure Spirit, disengaged from all such sympathy, 363 2| false lustre of error and disguise cannot endure being reviewed, 364 3| there is no ground for dislike or complaint against any 365 3| merely for conveniency and dispatch in the common actions of 366 2| energy of an all-perfect Mind displayed in endless forms. But, neither 367 3| and they can please or displease only so far forth as they 368 1| of the morning naturally dispose us to. But I am afraid I 369 3| difficulties, I say, and endless disquisitions, concerning these and innumerable 370 1| seems sweet, shall, to a distempered palate, appear bitter. And, 371 1| impossible even for the mind to disunite the ideas of extension and 372 1| artful way, Philonous, of diverting our inquiry from the subject.~ 373 1| finger, doth it not rend and divide the fibres of your flesh?~ 374 1| qualities are by philosophers divided into PRIMARY and SECONDARY. 375 1| that a SCEPTIC was one who doubted of everything; but I should 376 1| That is to say, you are a downright sceptic. So I have gained 377 1| NO.~PHIL. I act too in drawing the air through my nose; 378 3| natural philosophers have been dreaming all this while? Pray what 379 2| doth she not change her dress with the seasons? How aptly 380 3| it is, but men eat, and drink, and sleep, and perform 381 1| instance, when I hear a coach drive along the streets, immediately 382 1| SOUND. For, striking on the drum of the ear, it causeth a 383 3| You may indeed raise a dust with those terms, and so 384 1| striking on the drum of the ear, it causeth a vibration, 385 1| expect to find you abroad so early.~HYLAS. It is indeed something 386 1| PHIL. And yet you will earnestly contend for the truth of 387 2| upon opening my eyes or ears: they must therefore exist 388 3| case you cannot conceive it easier by the help of MATERIALISM, 389 3| state of things—the one ectypal or natural, the other archetypal 390 2| upon account of any real efficacy that is in them, or necessary 391 2| perceive that to suppose any efficient or active Cause of our ideas, 392 2| seasons? How aptly are the elements disposed! What variety and 393 3| which is called IGNORATIO ELENCHI. You talked often as if 394 3| and being once admitted, embarrass the mind with endless doubts 395 1| pardon me if I seem a little embarrassed: I know not how to quit 396 1| doth doubting consist in embracing the affirmative or negative 397 2| notion entertained by some eminent moderns, of SEEING ALL THINGS 398 1| are directed to the Roman emperor, and his are not? This cannot 399 2| means; which, if they are employed by inferior agents, it is 400 1| necessary they should be enabled by them to perceive their 401 2| passeth in them, not only enables us to conceive, but also 402 3| setter-up of new notions. My endeavours tend only to unite, and 403 3| several men together, all endued with the same faculties, 404 1| not DISTANCE a line turned endwise to the eye?~HYL. It is.~ 405 3| in that the killing an enemy in a battle, or putting 406 2| and in those worlds the energy of an all-perfect Mind displayed 407 1| for whoever understands English cannot but know that DOUBTING 408 1| understanding strangely enlightened, so that I can now easily 409 1| so amazed to see myself ensnared, and as it were imprisoned 410 2| now you think you have entangled me; for, if I say it exists 411 1| extravagant opinion that ever entered into the mind of man, to 412 1| they will be tempted to entertain suspicions concerning the 413 3| knowledge both useful and entertaining.~HYL. After all, can it 414 2| imagine that I run into the enthusiasm of Malebranche; though in 415 3| Existence; or with unknown entities, ABSTRACTED FROM ALL RELATION 416 3| which is sufficient to entitle them to all the guilt of 417 1| The latter are those above enumerated; or, briefly, ALL SENSIBLE 418 3| thing?~PHIL. That every epidemical opinion, arising from prejudice, 419 3| contradiction to suppose he should err in respect of that) but 420 2| order? Were those (miscalled ERRATIC) globes once known to stray, 421 3| the SAME thing: others, especially regarding the diversity 422 3| averse from the notions I espouse, it is a misapprehension 423 3| supposition—that Matter is an essential part of all corporeal things. 424 3| and manner which He then established, and we now call the laws 425 3| the latter existed from everlasting in the mind of God. Is not 426 3| for being ignorant of what everybody else knows perfectly well. 427 1| PHIL. Is the nearest and exactest survey made by the help 428 3| proposition, how free soever from exceptions, how clearly and solidly 429 2| presence of which they are excited.~PHIL. You acknowledge then 430 2| the presence whereof God excites ideas in our minds.~PHIL. 431 1| reflexion. But, as you have excluded sense, pray shew me what 432 3| not plain, God did either execute that decree from all eternity, 433 2| is no sooner exerted than executed, without the application 434 2| Though the labouring mind exert and strain each power to 435 2| Omnipotent Spirit is no sooner exerted than executed, without the 436 1| in our bodies—suspending, exerting, or altering, our faculties 437 1| because a bell struck in the exhausted receiver of an air-pump 438 2| Will it is they should be exhibited to me. The things, I say, 439 3| all their hypotheses and explications of the phenomena, which 440 1| SUBSTRATUM is used only to express in general the same thing 441 1| Is it not sufficiently expressed in the term SUBSTRATUM, 442 1| naturally endowed with a most exquisite sharpness?~HYL. It is.~PHIL. 443 2| and vegetable bodies I How exquisitely are all things suited, as 444 3| there are in bodies absolute extensions, without any particular 445 3| where is the evidence that extorts the belief of Matter? Nay, 446 3| you are led into all these extravagances by the belief of MATERIAL 447 2| yours will not be thought extravagantly absurd by all men of sense?~ 448 1| invent any new means to extricate yourself.~HYL. Agreed.~ 449 3| have an absolute existence extrinsical to the mind of God, as well 450 2| alternately drawn over her face, and doth she not change 451 2| same time.~PHIL. I will not fail to attend you.~ 452 3| of prejudice, which never fails to attend old and rooted 453 2| his folly. Can anything be fairer than to put a dispute on 454 1| and examined with all the fairness imaginable? In a word have 455 3| important article of our faith should have in making men 456 3| which (notwithstanding the fallacious pretences and affected scruples 457 3| acceptation, for things falling under our senses, but in 458 3| IDEAS you mean fictions and fancies of the mind, then these 459 1| who nevertheless are the farthest imaginable from denying 460 1| an hour moves three times faster than it would in case it 461 3| affirm. Whatsoever opinion we father on Him, it must be either 462 3| one thing that hath more favoured and strengthened the depraved 463 2| imagination to your aid. The feeble narrow sense cannot descry 464 1| those brute animals that feed on them out of choice, with 465 3| common sense of men. Ask the fellow whether yonder tree hath 466 1| not rend and divide the fibres of your flesh?~HYL. It doth.~ 467 3| question. If by IDEAS you mean fictions and fancies of the mind, 468 2| nearer view immense orbs of fight at various distances, far 469 1| Or, can you imagine that filth and ordure affect those 470 2| revolving round the central fires; and in those worlds the 471 2| perceive clearly, and adhere firmly to the truth? No; there 472 1| who hath greater force and firmness of limbs. Nor is it less 473 3| mind of God, in whom “we five, and move, and have our 474 1| at present discover any flaw in any of your former concessions, 475 3| YOU are only a system of floating ideas, without any substance 476 1| for my thoughts always flow more easily in conversation 477 3| obliged to think like other folks. And, as I am no sceptic 478 1| so many odd consequences following upon such a concession.~ 479 2| farther to be convinced of his folly. Can anything be fairer 480 3| thus imposed on, and so foolish as to believe their senses? 481 3| any true natures at all; forasmuch as you attribute to your 482 3| such innovations had been forbidden, men would have made a notable 483 1| smells, as of the other forementioned qualities, that they cannot 484 2| clouds, or of an old gloomy forest, are not our minds filled 485 3| know by reflexion. You will forgive me if I repeat the same 486 1| what peculiar texture and formation of the eye, what degree 487 2| unintelligibly, instead of forming a reasonable hypothesis.~ 488 2| causes and effects, or in a fortuitous concourse of atoms; those 489 3| Hylas, the water of yonder fountain, how it is forced upwards, 490 1| sweet notes of birds, the fragrant bloom upon the trees and 491 3| science whatsoever, that frenzy of the ancient and modern 492 2| awakened and detained by a frequent repetition of the same thing 493 1| faculties too being at this time fresh and lively, are fit for 494 1| easily in conversation with a friend, than when I am alone: but 495 3| me, Hylas, what are the fruits of yesterday’s meditation? 496 2| there are no Principles more fundamentally opposite than his and mine. 497 3| my soul may be said to furnish me with an idea, that is, 498 3| credible? Nay, hath it not furnished the atheists and infidels 499 2| INFINITE MIND OR GOD? This furnishes you with a direct and immediate 500 2| with all its glittering furniture. Though the labouring mind