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501 3| truth of my notion. Ask the gardener why he thinks yonder cherry-tree 502 3| give up the point, without gathering the votes.~PHIL. I wish 503 1| distinction, by answer I gave when you were applying it 504 3| anything which makes the generality of mankind averse from the 505 3| on the first chapter of Genesis may be conceived as consistently 506 3| MATTER:—THIS distinction gives it quite another turn; and 507 2| my prudent resolution of giving none but negative answers, 508 2| creation a false imaginary glare? To be plain, can you expect 509 3| object perceived by the glass being quite different from 510 3| denying Matter, at first glimpse I am tempted to imagine 511 2| boundless extent, with all its glittering furniture. Though the labouring 512 2| those (miscalled ERRATIC) globes once known to stray, in 513 2| the clouds, or of an old gloomy forest, are not our minds 514 3| cannot say it is for the glory of God. For, allowing it 515 3| the world? Suppose you are going to write, would you not 516 2| claim to existence than a golden mountain, or a centaur.~ 517 1| others. I am even so far gone of late in this way of thinking, 518 3| omniscience, infinite power and goodness, are as conspicuous as the 519 1| the sublime notions I had got in their schools for vulgar 520 3| imagine. That innovations in government and religion are dangerous, 521 3| parts of the world became gradually perceivable to finite spirits, 522 1| is LOUD, SWEET, ACUTE, or GRAVE.~HYL. I see you are resolved 523 3| uniform law or principle of GRAVITATION. just so, the same Principles 524 3| happiness or misery, joy or grief, pleasure or pain, to do 525 2| something in the woods and groves, in the rivers and clear 526 1| motion over any space in half the time that it doth to 527 2| what has been so largely handled, I ask whether all your 528 1| in the garden.~PHIL. It happened well, to let you see what 529 1| microscopes, upon a change happening in the burnouts of the eye, 530 1| the eye. The same thing happens upon viewing an object in 531 1| Insomuch that what you can hardly discern will to another 532 1| recollect myself.~PHIL. Hark; is not this the college 533 1| bodies which are capable of harming them?~HYL. Certainly.~PHIL. 534 2| entire conviction, that hearty acquiescence, which attends 535 1| perceive a thing to be hot and heavy, I cannot say, with any 536 3| You should likewise take heed not to argue on a PETITIO 537 3| round column, to a certain height; at which it breaks, and 538 3| reflecting on my own soul, heightening its powers, and removing 539 3| adultery, and the like heinous sins.~PHIL. In answer to 540 1| which they had hitherto held sacred and unquestionable.~ 541 3| PHIL. When Moses speaks of herbs, earth, water, &c. as having 542 1| prism which, separating the heterogeneous rays of light, alters the 543 2| luminaries that adorn the high arch of heaven. The motion 544 3| prescribed by the sacred historian. I ever before believed 545 3| so I am.~PHIL. Ought the historical part of Scripture to be 546 2| imaginations of Vanini, Hobbes, and Spinoza: in a word, 547 3| its extent, continuity, homogeneity, gravity, divisibility, & 548 3| be found that most plain honest men, who believe the creation, 549 3| are thrown into the most hopeless and abandoned scepticism. 550 2| were so intent upon it, in hopes if there were any mistakes 551 2| minds filled with a pleasing horror? Even in rocks and deserts 552 2| brings into your sight a new host of stars that escape the 553 1| that describes a mile in an hour moves three times faster 554 1| described only a mile in three hours.~HYL. I agree with you.~ 555 3| for all those trees and houses to exist in your mind. Can 556 3| should have in making men humble, thankful, and resigned 557 3| with a ridiculous sceptical humour of making everything nonsense 558 1| bodies abound with different humours, do not see the same colours 559 3| abstract, substantial forms, hylarchic principles, plastic natures, 560 3| sophism which is called IGNORATIO ELENCHI. You talked often 561 1| agree with you, as to the ill tendency of the affected 562 2| they not also set off and illustrate each other? Raise now your 563 2| of the creation a false imaginary glare? To be plain, can 564 2| concourse of atoms; those wild imaginations of Vanini, Hobbes, and Spinoza: 565 3| perceives at present, he imagines would be perceived in other 566 2| conceive that the soul, being immaterial, is incapable of being united 567 3| whether Materialist or Immaterialist, should have exactly just 568 2| out ungrasped a surplusage immeasurable. Yet all the vast bodies 569 3| this set forth either the immensity or omniscience of the Deity, 570 2| the times? So fixed, so immutable are the laws by which the 571 2| substance of God, who is an impassive, indivisible, pure, active 572 3| powers, and removing its imperfections. I have, therefore, though 573 2| one of those abettors of impiety but look into his own thoughts, 574 1| the word SUBSTRATUM should import that it is spread under 575 3| whole world should be thus imposed on, and so foolish as to 576 3| Words are of arbitrary imposition; and, since men are used 577 3| names would render language impracticable. Therefore, to avoid this, 578 3| place, or a seal to make an impression upon wax. My meaning is 579 1| ensnared, and as it were imprisoned in the labyrinths you have 580 2| existence of matter is highly improbable; but the direct and absolute 581 2| any man to affect speaking improperly is to pervert the use of 582 1| communicated otherwise than by impulse. A distant object therefore 583 3| observe, first, that the imputation of guilt is the same, whether 584 3| thoughtlessness, may be imputed to God, as the Author of 585 3| must not be drawn from the inadequateness of our conceptions of the 586 3| impossible the creation of any inanimate creatures should precede 587 3| For the present, I have no inclination to the answering part. I 588 3| must own that nothing can incline me to embrace your opinion 589 3| that attend the doctrine of incommensurable quantities, of the angle 590 2| inactive instrument to be incompatible with the infinite perfection 591 3| themselves. Nor are they empty or incomplete, otherwise than upon your 592 3| His nature, therefore, is incomprehensible to finite spirits. It is 593 1| What think you of those inconceivably small animals perceived 594 3| contrivance even of the most inconsiderable parts of the universe? But, 595 3| avoid this, as well as other inconveniences which are obvious upon a 596 3| The being of a God, and incorruptibility of the soul, those great 597 3| writer, it would still be incumbent on you to shew those words 598 3| things. It is to this you are indebted for being ignorant of what 599 3| by them, imply a sort of independency, or a subsistence distinct 600 2| their archetypes, exist independently of my mind, since I know 601 3| we see signs and effects indicating distinct finite agents like 602 3| not one word, directly or indirectly, in what you have now objected.~ 603 3| imagination are faint and indistinct; they have, besides, an 604 3| and accident, principle of individuation, possibility of Matter’s 605 1| could rather call it an INDOLENCE. It seems to be nothing 606 3| you imagine He would have induced the whole world to believe 607 2| neither reason nor revelation induces us to believe the existence 608 2| pleased to shew me what reason induceth you to believe there is 609 3| bodies (bating the small inequalities, arising from the resistance 610 3| that it is itself the most inexplicable thing in the world. And 611 3| furnished the atheists and infidels of all ages with the most 612 1| SUBSTRATUM: and so on to infinity. And I ask whether this 613 2| attributes, to suppose He is influenced, directed, or put in mind, 614 1| neither sense nor reason informs you that it actually exists 615 2| good Hylas, to act the same ingenuous part, and tell me sincerely 616 1| you were speaking of as an ingredient in every sensation? And, 617 1| preserving their bodies from injuries, which appears in that of 618 1| well, to let you see what innocent and agreeable pleasures 619 1| larger?~HYL. They will.~PHIL. Insomuch that what you can hardly 620 2| reviewed, or too nearly inspected.~HYL. I own there is a great 621 1| more close and accurate inspection which is afforded us by 622 1| nameless beauties of nature inspire the soul with secret transports; 623 3| and far more numerous and insurmountable objections lie against it. 624 2| reality of that which is intangible be a proof that anything 625 1| these you know are universal intellectual notions, and consequently 626 3| in any sort to affect an intelligence, this I can never understand. 627 3| the mind of other created intelligences, beside men. You will not 628 3| should become perceptible to intelligent creatures, in that order 629 3| Nature certainly never intended us for speculation.~PHIL. 630 2| a mutual dependence and intercourse with each other; even with 631 1| same vessel of water, in an intermediate state; will not the water 632 3| their minds, without the interposition of Matter, or unthinking 633 2| IN GENERAL, which being interpreted proves NOTHING. So Matter 634 1| us to. But I am afraid I interrupt your thoughts: for you seemed 635 3| wherein they exist, during the intervals between the times of my 636 1| mediately, or not without the intervention of others?~HYL. I do not 637 3| Natural Philosophy, what intricacies, what obscurities, what 638 3| most shocking paradoxes and intricate speculations in those sciences 639 3| whatsoever scheme of things you introduce in its stead, I doubt not 640 3| MATERIAL SUBSTANCE, are terms introduced by philosophers; and, as 641 3| know this immediately or intuitively, though I do not perceive 642 1| find any fallacy in it, or invent any new means to extricate 643 3| what appears to me utterly irreconcilable with your notions. Moses 644 2| consider them, the more irresistibly do they force my assent.~ 645 1| the same manner. In the jaundice every one knows that all 646 3| there ever known a more jejune notion than that? Something 647 1| Either, Hylas, you are jesting, or have a very bad memory. 648 3| proportional to the velocity, jointly with the extension and solidity.~ 649 2| stray, in their repeated journeys through the pathless void? 650 3| hath happiness or misery, joy or grief, pleasure or pain, 651 2| desert, a chaos, or confused jumble of atoms; how anything at 652 2| laws of disputation I may justly blame you for so frequently 653 3| This is plain, in that the killing an enemy in a battle, or 654 1| Philonous, I think there are two kinds of objects:—the one perceived 655 3| mind. To know everything knowable, is certainly a perfection; 656 2| You may now, without any laborious search into the sciences, 657 2| glittering furniture. Though the labouring mind exert and strain each 658 3| taking the word IDEA in a large sense, my soul may be said 659 2| farther on what has been so largely handled, I ask whether all 660 1| mite they will seem yet larger?~HYL. They will.~PHIL. Insomuch 661 3| attended with. I am by nature lazy; and this would be a mighty 662 1| PHIL. My aim is only to learn from you the way to come 663 2| entirely changing, at others leaving out, or putting into the 664 3| battle, or putting a criminal legally to death, is not thought 665 3| with those terms, and so lengthen our dispute to no purpose. 666 1| is that I have been too liberal in my former concessions, 667 2| that it is an unaccountable licence you take, in pretending 668 1| mankind. But the mischief lieth here; that when men of less 669 2| obliged to own the use of a lifeless inactive instrument to be 670 3| idea, that is, an image or likeness of God—though indeed extremely 671 2| who is Himself above all limitation or prescription whatsoever.~ 672 2| some Divine art and force, linked in a mutual dependence and 673 2| Scripture saith, “That in God we live and move and have our being.” 674 2| known rules of reason and logic? And hath not this shifting, 675 2| But do you not think it looks very like a notion entertained 676 1| agreeable pleasures you lose every morning. Can there 677 1| MOTION as of a thing that is LOUD, SWEET, ACUTE, or GRAVE.~ 678 2| be met with even in the lowest of common conversation? 679 3| thinking the moon a plain lucid surface, about a foot in 680 2| earth to all those glorious luminaries that adorn the high arch 681 2| of the fixed stars! How magnificent and rich that negligent 682 1| case we had microscopes magnifying to any assigned degree, 683 1| and opinions; it being a main part of our inquiry, to 684 2| world, which I deny. He maintains that we are deceived by 685 2| run into the enthusiasm of Malebranche; though in truth I am very 686 1| objects: because by artificial managements they may be altered, or 687 3| notions of mankind; that it manifests the dependence of all things 688 3| unperceivable, real Nature, marked by each name. Which prejudice 689 3| omnipotent, but Matter an inert mass. If the order, regularity, 690 3| make you hold out against mathematical demonstration? Or will you 691 3| Spirits and ideas?—Even the MATHEMATICS themselves, if we take away 692 1| is a universally received maxim that EVERYTHING WHICH EXISTS 693 2| What variety and use in the meanest productions of nature! What 694 2| pathless void? Do they not measure areas round the sun ever 695 1| you.~PHIL. And is not time measured by the succession of ideas 696 3| false ones too. The very meat I eat, and the cloth I wear, 697 3| they been able to reach the MECHANICAL production of any one animal 698 2| soever, are by some secret mechanism, some Divine art and force, 699 3| the fruits of yesterday’s meditation? Has it confirmed you in 700 1| lively, are fit for those meditations, which the solitude of a 701 2| pardon, Philonous, for not meeting you sooner. All this morning 702 3| language; most part of the mental operations being signified 703 1| those qualities, without mentioning any other; and, in this 704 3| agree with you.~PHIL. Moses mentions the sun, moon, and stars, 705 2| groundless and unreasonable to be met with even in the lowest 706 3| unthinking second causes.—Then in METAPHYSICS: what difficulties concerning 707 1| PHIL. Consequently the microscopical representation is to be 708 2| and, with that view, have minutely examined the whole series 709 1| which by reason of their minuteness escape our sight. What think 710 3| not ridiculously absurd to misapply names contrary to the common 711 3| notions I espouse, it is a misapprehension that I deny the reality 712 2| use and order? Were those (miscalled ERRATIC) globes once known 713 1| disadvantage to mankind. But the mischief lieth here; that when men 714 2| advocate for Atheism. Those miserable refuges, whether in an eternal 715 3| word MATTER should be never missed in common talk. And in philosophical 716 1| form than that of a dark mist or vapour?~HYL. I must own, 717 3| you more than this same MISTAKING THE QUESTION. In denying 718 1| conceive it possible for any mixture or combination of qualities, 719 2| entertained by some eminent moderns, of SEEING ALL THINGS IN 720 1| not follow, because those modifications of motion exist not without 721 3| sensations of softness, moisture, redness, tartness, and 722 2| MIND WHICH AFFECTS ME EVERY MOMENT WITH ALL THE SENSIBLE IMPRESSIONS 723 | moreover 724 1| DIALOGUE~PHILONOUS. Good morrow, Hylas: I did not expect 725 1| convinced out of your own mouth? And, if you can at present 726 1| same body shall be really moved the same way at once, both 727 1| describes a mile in an hour moves three times faster than 728 2| purpose than to protract and multiply disputes, where there is 729 2| art and force, linked in a mutual dependence and intercourse 730 1| things which before were all mystery and riddle.~HYL. I am glad 731 1| sun, these and a thousand nameless beauties of nature inspire 732 3| that I see things in their native forms, and am no longer 733 1| HYL. Right.~PHIL. Is the nearest and exactest survey made 734 2| endure being reviewed, or too nearly inspected.~HYL. I own there 735 3| finding they answer all the necessities and purposes of life, have 736 3| of colours in a pigeon’s neck, or the appearance of the 737 2| his operations, or, not needing it, make use of it? Thus 738 3| of Scripture that it were needless to confirm it by citations.~ 739 2| to this general idea the negation of all those particular 740 3| naturally disposes men to a negligence in their moral actions; 741 2| magnificent and rich that negligent profusion with which they 742 3| every alteration in the nervous parts of our sensible body; 743 2| its existence?~HYL. Upon a nice observation, I do not find 744 3| practice does not require a nicety of speculative knowledge. 745 2| who would deprive these noble and delightful scenes of 746 3| forbidden, men would have made a notable progress in the arts and 747 1| sky, those wild but sweet notes of birds, the fragrant bloom 748 2| true in fact, and from a notional to allow it a real existence?~ 749 3| individual, the endless number of confusion of names would 750 1| without all specific and numerical differences, as the schools 751 3| one proof, and far more numerous and insurmountable objections 752 3| HYL. Explain to me now, O Philonous! how it is possible 753 3| indirectly, in what you have now objected.~HYL. I must acknowledge 754 3| abundance of trouble in objecting; since of all your difficulties 755 3| neither perceive Matter objectively, as you do an inactive being 756 3| what intricacies, what obscurities, what contradictions hath 757 2| the order and regularity observable in the series of our ideas, 758 3| been doing nothing; for, by observing and reasoning upon the connexion 759 2| prescription, and that he cannot obtain his end but in such a way, 760 3| inconsistent; and instead of it obtrude on us I know not what; something 761 1| I thought I had already obviated that distinction, by answer 762 3| therefore, any difficulty occurs, try if you can find a solution 763 1| stick at nothing for its oddness. But, on the other hand, 764 1| you might have made, or offer whatever you have omitted 765 3| sleep, and perform all the offices of life, as comfortably 766 2| unknown Matter to exist?~HYL. Oh Philonous! now you think 767 1| offer whatever you have omitted which makes for your first 768 3| Being whose spirituality, omnipresence, providence, omniscience, 769 1| when you advance farther onward; there being a continued 770 3| MATTER, should mutually operate on each other? what difficulties, 771 2| tedious length of discourse, oppose and baffle the most strenuous 772 3| particular sciences? Is not that opposition to all science whatsoever, 773 3| Ask him why he thinks an orange-tree not to be there, and he 774 2| to a nearer view immense orbs of fight at various distances, 775 3| rules, as He Himself hath ordained, and are by us termed the 776 2| produced in our minds, after an orderly and constant manner, it 777 3| They do so: but you know ordinary practice does not require 778 1| you imagine that filth and ordure affect those brute animals 779 1| therefore, and extension, being originally perceived by sense, do not 780 1| sight suggests something of OUTNESS OR DISTANCE?~PHIL. Upon 781 3| Nothing now remains to be overcome but a sort of unaccountable 782 1| my former concessions, or overlooked some fallacy or other. In 783 2| Atheism, is it not entirely overthrown, by this single reflexion 784 3| of the philosophers are owing to the same original: while 785 2| there is need of time and pains: the attention must be awakened 786 1| properly represented or painted forth by several distinct 787 1| by us, are pleasures or pair existing in the external 788 1| more than a philosophical paradox, to say that REAL SOUNDS 789 2| what purpose. Can this be paralleled in any art or science, any 790 3| we should at this time, a parcel of plants or vegetables 791 3| therefore upon the whole no parity of case between Spirit and 792 3| a spirit: that the least particle of a body contains innumerable 793 1| figure, abstracted from all particularities of size, or even from other 794 3| same mind you were in at parting? or have you since seen 795 1| shall perceive after having passed over a certain distance: 796 1| fair observation of what passes in my mind, I can discover 797 2| own minds, and that which passeth in them, not only enables 798 3| arising from prejudice, or passion, or thoughtlessness, may 799 1| PHIL. The point will be past all doubt, if you consider 800 2| repeated journeys through the pathless void? Do they not measure 801 1| microscopes make the sight more penetrating, and represent objects as 802 3| are never used by common people; or, if ever, it is to signify 803 1| aught you can tell, I am as peremptory in my denial, as you in 804 1| obliged to you if you will permit me to go on in the same 805 1| senses; or are they in a perpetual change, upon our producing 806 1| please, and endeavour to perplex the plainest things; but 807 3| conduct you through as many perplexities and contradictions, to the 808 1| informed, whether you still persist in the same opinion.~HYL. 809 2| speaking improperly is to pervert the use of speech, and can 810 3| take heed not to argue on a PETITIO PRINCIPII. One is apt to 811 3| continue to use the same phrase, without any deviation either 812 1| of departing from common phrases and opinions; it being a 813 3| are great advantages in PHYSICS. Not to mention that the 814 1| immediately perceived, to be pictures of external things: and 815 1| discovered by a very sharp and piercing sight, or by one which is 816 3| the change of colours in a pigeon’s neck, or the appearance 817 3| Scriptures assert in a hundred places. In them God is represented 818 3| forms, hylarchic principles, plastic natures, substance and accident, 819 2| what else is this than to play with words, and run into 820 3| is none of my business to plead for novelties and paradoxes. 821 2| occasion? You have already pleaded for each of these, shifting 822 1| morning. Can there be a pleasanter time of the day, or a more 823 2| all scruple, and work a plenary assent in the mind? Let 824 1| them?~HYL. It is.~PHIL. In plucking this flower I am active; 825 3| universe. And so you are plunged into the deepest and most 826 3| from the latter. And this plunges us yet deeper in uncertainty. 827 1| what certain distance and position of the object, what peculiar 828 3| the difference. Before, my positiveness was founded, without examination, 829 1| in our senses, or in the posture and motion of our bodies; 830 3| so: but you know ordinary practice does not require a nicety 831 1| bell?~HYL. It rings for prayers.~PHIL. We will go in then, 832 3| inanimate creatures should precede that of man? And is not 833 3| and of a piece with the preceding and subsequent transactions 834 3| stands in that respect; precisely, what you have added to, 835 3| except it be with your preconceived notion of (I know not what) 836 3| common sense, without the prejudices of a learned education. 837 3| in a circle?~HYL. In the premise I only mean that the motion 838 3| extension against the Divine prescience, as from such a difficulty 839 3| contradiction; since I cannot prescind or abstract, even in thought, 840 2| idea of Entity in general, prescinded from and exclusive of all 841 1| upon all animals for their preservation and well-being in life? 842 2| beauties of the earth! To preserve and renew our, relish for 843 1| hath not the same use in preserving their bodies from injuries, 844 1| see you have no mind to be pressed that way. To return then 845 3| If this be a sufficient pretence for withholding your full 846 3| notwithstanding the fallacious pretences and affected scruples of 847 1| it. But, thus much seems pretty plain, that it is at least 848 1| requested myself if you had not prevented me.~HYL. I was considering 849 1| to what you say by way of prevention: I ask you whether the real 850 1| ought.~PHIL. When a pin pricks your finger, doth it not 851 2| the signification of the principal term)—I would fain know 852 3| not to argue on a PETITIO PRINCIPII. One is apt to say—The unknown 853 1| conceiving a material substance, prior to and distinct from extension 854 1| these the experiment of a prism which, separating the heterogeneous 855 1| to be nothing more than a privation of both pain and pleasure. 856 3| argument, and there is a probability for the other; if we see 857 1| error or oversight in our proceedings hitherto, that all sensible 858 1| reality of sensible things, or professes the greatest ignorance of 859 1| the pursuits of knowledge professing an entire ignorance of all 860 2| or science, any sect or profession of men? Or is there anything 861 2| and rich that negligent profusion with which they appear to 862 3| done? You may remember you promised to embrace that opinion 863 3| time direct and evident proofs of it. But for the existence 864 2| being filled with spirits propagate them to the brain or seat 865 1| optic nerves; which, being propagated to the brain, cause therein 866 1| difficult to form general propositions and reasonings about those 867 3| never expect to make me a proselyte to your principles.~PHIL. 868 2| transports the soul? At the prospect of the wide and deep ocean, 869 2| a better purpose than to protract and multiply disputes, where 870 2| which being interpreted proves NOTHING. So Matter comes 871 3| God is infinitely wise and provident, but Matter destitute of 872 3| that you are obliged to pull down your own hypothesis 873 3| unaltered, the chambers are all pulled down, and new ones built 874 3| all the necessities and purposes of life, have no reason 875 2| their being perceived. And pursuant to this notion of reality, 876 3| and spend our lives in the pursuit of it, when, alas I we know 877 1| their whole time in the pursuits of knowledge professing 878 1| HYL. When it produces, puts an end to, or changes, anything.~ 879 2| hypothesis, or answering all the puzzling questions and difficulties 880 1| extension, by which it is qualified to be a SUBSTRATUM: and 881 3| able to answer all those queries you formerly put to me about 882 3| for Matter, or AN UNKNOWN QUIDDITY, WITH AN ABSOLUTE EXISTENCE. 883 1| of thinking, that I have quitted several of the sublime notions 884 2| universe. How vivid and radiant is the lustre of the fixed 885 1| Philonous, you are disposed to raillery; but that will never convince 886 1| Because, when any motion is raised in the air, we perceive 887 1| heart. Since you are for raising disputes about the plainest 888 3| however, not changed at random, but according to the fixed 889 3| mediately by your senses, or by ratiocination from your senses; whatever 890 1| separating the heterogeneous rays of light, alters the colour 891 1| or, if you have heard or read of any one that did.~HYL. 892 3| to every unphilosophical reader?~HYL. I cannot help thinking 893 2| methinks you should be ready to own the truth, when it 894 3| easily be distinguished from realities. In short, by whatever method 895 2| circumstance, there may reasonably be inferred the existence 896 1| But, as we approach to or recede from an object, the visible 897 1| struck in the exhausted receiver of an air-pump sends forth 898 1| motion of a body swift in a reciprocal proportion to the time it 899 1| been hitherto said, and reckon it for nothing, if you will 900 3| IMMATERIALISM. And yet, upon recollection, I believe you will find 901 3| if you expect I should be reconciled to them.~HYL. I see you 902 1| inquiry. You are at liberty to recover any slips you might have 903 1| when we are said to see a red-hot bar of iron; the solidity 904 3| sensations of softness, moisture, redness, tartness, and you take 905 1| and in various manners reflected from the different surfaces 906 3| have of God is obtained by reflecting on my own soul, heightening 907 3| as you do yourself, by a reflex act, neither do you mediately 908 1| would suffer me to impart my reflexions to you.~PHIL. With all my 909 2| Atheism. Those miserable refuges, whether in an eternal succession 910 2| and by your own confession refuted in each of those senses? 911 1| not allowed to retract or reinforce anything you had offered, 912 3| will end.~PHIL. Why the rejecting a notion that has no foundation, 913 1| perceived by sense, entirely relates to reason.~PHIL. This point 914 3| long as it answers all the religious ends of that great article; 915 2| preserve and renew our, relish for them, is not the veil 916 2| should use one if I were to remove part of a rock, or tear 917 3| glasses. Now the glasses are removed and a new light breaks in 918 3| heightening its powers, and removing its imperfections. I have, 919 1| your finger, doth it not rend and divide the fibres of 920 3| confusion of names would render language impracticable. 921 2| the earth! To preserve and renew our, relish for them, is 922 2| known to stray, in their repeated journeys through the pathless 923 2| and detained by a frequent repetition of the same thing placed 924 1| Consequently the microscopical representation is to be thought that which 925 2| by perceiving that which represents them in the intelligible 926 2| part you have nothing to reproach me with. My comfort is, 927 3| there is included a manifest repugnance and inconsistency. But this 928 1| maintain more paradoxes and repugnances to Common Sense, than I 929 1| when I am alone: but my request is, that you would suffer 930 1| it is what I should have requested myself if you had not prevented 931 2| senses? And can any more be required to prove the absolute impossibility 932 1| they have a conformity or resemblance to our ideas?~HYL. That 933 1| rest? Or, if you say it resembles some one only of our ideas, 934 1| the point for the present, reserving still a right to retract 935 2| supposed the soul makes her residence in some part of the brain, 936 3| men humble, thankful, and resigned to their great Creator. 937 3| liable to be thwarted or resisted by nothing: it is evident, 938 2| confirmed in my prudent resolution of giving none but negative 939 3| real thing in nature. The result of all which is that we 940 3| think you, therefore, of retaining the name MATTER, and applying 941 2| notions it led me into, upon review, appear still more clear 942 2| disguise cannot endure being reviewed, or too nearly inspected.~ 943 1| what time you please in reviewing the progress of our inquiry. 944 1| you on my word; since this revolt from metaphysical notions 945 2| descry innumerable worlds revolving round the central fires; 946 2| stars! How magnificent and rich that negligent profusion 947 1| before were all mystery and riddle.~HYL. I am glad to find 948 3| SECONDLY, Whether it be not ridiculously absurd to misapply names 949 1| the college bell?~HYL. It rings for prayers.~PHIL. We will 950 1| gentle influence of the rising sun, these and a thousand 951 2| woods and groves, in the rivers and clear springs, that 952 1| are widest of the common road, and most repugnant to the 953 2| pleasing horror? Even in rocks and deserts is there not 954 1| thoughts are directed to the Roman emperor, and his are not? 955 3| possible there should be room for all those trees and 956 3| fails to attend old and rooted notions? And indeed in this 957 2| or tear up a tree by the roots. Are you of the same mind? 958 3| the basin from whence it rose: its ascent, as well as 959 2| vain, or do that by tedious roundabout methods which might have 960 3| red colour, the touch with roundness, softness, &c. Hence, when 961 2| any part, even the most rude and shapeless, of the visible 962 2| would willingly spend in running over in my thoughts the 963 3| Him the Author of murder, sacrilege, adultery, and the like 964 2| other hand, something so satisfactory, so natural and intelligible, 965 2| ENTITY.~HYL. Nothing else; save only that I super-add to 966 3| prejudice, let us throw into the scale the great advantages that 967 1| time they appear to you scarce discernible, or at best 968 2| which they appear to be scattered throughout the whole azure 969 2| these noble and delightful scenes of all REALITY? How should 970 3| they began to build their schemes not so much on notions as 971 3| along been allowed the full scope of sense, imagination, and 972 3| particular opinion on that score: or you are able to conceive 973 3| moon, and stars, earth and sea, plants and animals. That 974 1| day, or a more delightful season of the year? That purple 975 2| change her dress with the seasons? How aptly are the elements 976 2| propagate them to the brain or seat of the soul, which, according 977 2| any art or science, any sect or profession of men? Or 978 3| Cartesians, and the like sects usually do; and for a long 979 1| remain qualities enough to secure the reality of external 980 3| and truth of things which secures all the concerns of life, 981 3| all respects. But, what security can I have that I shall 982 | seeming 983 2| surely none could be more seemingly evident than this once was: 984 3| PHIL. You lay it down as a self-evident principle that the quantity 985 1| receiver of an air-pump sends forth no sound. The air, 986 1| greater degree of heat is more sensibly perceived; and consequently, 987 3| without any change in your sentiments: and, believe me, it would 988 1| experiment of a prism which, separating the heterogeneous rays of 989 2| there is something highly serviceable to religion in what you 990 3| I do not pretend to be a setter-up of new notions. My endeavours 991 2| workmanship of God. But that—setting aside all help of astronomy 992 1| light doth no more than shake the optic nerves.~HYL. Nothing 993 3| notion be singular, it is a shame it should be so, at this 994 2| even the most rude and shapeless, of the visible world, to 995 2| OCCASION.~PHIL. How many shapes is your Matter to take? 996 3| that truth which was before shared between the vulgar and the 997 1| endowed with a most exquisite sharpness?~HYL. It is.~PHIL. Consequently 998 3| whose walls or outward shell remaining unaltered, the 999 2| various senses, you have been shewed either to mean nothing at 1000 2| the use of an instrument sheweth the agent to be limited