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1001 3| and for all that make a shift to bustle through the affairs 1002 3| the strange notions which shock the genuine uncorrupted 1003 3| persons who may be more shocked at an innovation in words 1004 1| notions, since this may much shorten our inquiry. Suffer me then 1005 3| substances, I desire you to show where Moses makes any mention 1006 3| nothing we either desire or shun but as it makes, or is apprehended 1007 1| your eyes, or keep them shut; to turn them this or that 1008 1| cannot but know that DOUBTING signifies a suspense between both.~ 1009 3| for the other; if we see signs and effects indicating distinct 1010 1| entirely convinced, at least silenced.~PHIL. I would fain know 1011 3| understood yourself.—Why so silent, Hylas? Are you not yet 1012 3| mediately apprehend it by similitude of the one or the other; 1013 1| pleasure and pain; to which simply, that they were. Whereas 1014 2| agreeable wildness? How sincere a pleasure is it to behold 1015 2| ingenuous part, and tell me sincerely whether you can frame a 1016 3| to death, is not thought sinful; though the outward act 1017 1| that each quality cannot singly subsist without the mind. 1018 3| adultery, and the like heinous sins.~PHIL. In answer to that, 1019 1| PHIL. And can a line so situated be perceived by sight?~HYL. 1020 2| earth, which was almost slipt from my thoughts and lost 1021 1| some degree of swiftness or slowness, some certain magnitude 1022 1| eye it shall seem little, smooth, and round, when at the 1023 1| such thing as MATTER?~PHIL. Softly, good Hylas. What if it 1024 3| God is represented as the sole and immediate Author of 1025 3| life, have no reason to be solicitous about any other unknown 1026 3| exceptions, how clearly and solidly soever demonstrated.~HYL. 1027 1| thinking of a tree in a solitary place, where no one was 1028 1| those meditations, which the solitude of a garden and tranquillity 1029 | somewhere 1030 1| That they inhere not in the sonorous bodies is plain from hence: 1031 2| and clear springs, that soothes, that delights, that transports 1032 3| yourself by that vulgar sophism which is called IGNORATIO 1033 1| sort of objects do. I am sorry I did not think of this 1034 3| their originals, be not the source of all this scepticism? 1035 3| you would probably have spared yourself abundance of trouble 1036 3| doubtless.~PHIL. When Moses speaks of herbs, earth, water, & 1037 1| properties, are without all specific and numerical differences, 1038 3| paradoxes and intricate speculations in those sciences depending 1039 3| not require a nicety of speculative knowledge. Hence the vulgar 1040 1| I think the point may be speedily decided. Without doubt you 1041 1| who are supposed to have spent their whole time in the 1042 2| imaginations of Vanini, Hobbes, and Spinoza: in a word, the whole system 1043 3| the word. A Being whose spirituality, omnipresence, providence, 1044 1| necessarily included in SPREADING?~HYL. It is.~PHIL. Whatsoever 1045 2| unfair method of yours spun out our dispute to an unnecessary 1046 1| PHIL. Have those things a stable and permanent nature, independent 1047 2| yet, if there is withal a stain of prejudice, or a wrong 1048 2| absurd. Common custom is the standard of propriety in language. 1049 1| we suppose they are all stark blind? Or, in case they 1050 3| our opinions were fairly stated and submitted to the judgment 1051 3| what he perceives in one station, that, in case he advances 1052 1| when I look on a picture or statue of Julius Caesar, I may 1053 1| already made, I hope you will stick at nothing for its oddness. 1054 3| instance, would stay my stomach better than ten thousand 1055 3| its being perceived. Wood, stones, fire, water, flesh, iron, 1056 2| labouring mind exert and strain each power to its utmost 1057 3| another; yet, by all their strained thoughts and extravagant 1058 1| I find my understanding strangely enlightened, so that I can 1059 2| ERRATIC) globes once known to stray, in their repeated journeys 1060 1| a coach drive along the streets, immediately I perceive 1061 3| that hath more favoured and strengthened the depraved bent of the 1062 2| oppose and baffle the most strenuous advocate for Atheism. Those 1063 1| evident that, in truth and strictness, nothing can be HEARD BUT 1064 1| sensation of SOUND. For, striking on the drum of the ear, 1065 2| altogether so distinct, so strong, vivid, and permanent, as 1066 1| from hence: because a bell struck in the exhausted receiver 1067 3| your mind, as books in your study: or that things are imprinted 1068 3| SENSIBLE, SUBSTANCE, BODY, STUFF, and the like, are retained, 1069 3| or figure: that a thing stupid, thoughtless, and inactive, 1070 1| have quitted several of the sublime notions I had got in their 1071 3| opinions were fairly stated and submitted to the judgment of men who 1072 3| piece with the preceding and subsequent transactions of our lives, 1073 2| its being an INSTRUMENT, subservient to the supreme Agent in 1074 3| concerning entity in abstract, substantial forms, hylarchic principles, 1075 1| or think of any remaining subterfuge, any new distinction, colour, 1076 2| the sciences, without any subtlety of reason, or tedious length 1077 1| not possible ideas should succeed one another twice as fast 1078 1| series of visible objects succeeding each other during the whole 1079 3| or, in other words, God suffers pain: that is to say, there 1080 3| In the meantime, let it suffice that I tell you, I do not 1081 1| Sight therefore doth not suggest, or any way inform you, 1082 3| entertains notions of the Deity suitable to the Holy Scriptures will 1083 2| exquisitely are all things suited, as well to their particular 1084 3| imaginable; that it exactly suits with the common, natural, 1085 2| Hylas, is not this a fair summary of your whole proceeding?~ 1086 2| at various distances, far sunk in the abyss of space. Now 1087 2| Nothing else; save only that I super-add to this general idea the 1088 3| our notions; for that you super-added to your idea of the house 1089 2| Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused. It is nothing 1090 1| extension. It is therefore superfluous to inquire particularly 1091 3| has discovered it to us by supernatural revelation; or because it 1092 1| it not evident the thing supported is different from the thing 1093 3| thoughts and extravagant suppositions, have they been able to 1094 3| thinking the moon a plain lucid surface, about a foot in diameter; 1095 1| reflected from the different surfaces of outward objects to the 1096 2| relapsing into an obscure surmise of I know not what, MATTER.~ 1097 2| still stands out ungrasped a surplusage immeasurable. Yet all the 1098 2| I shall not therefore be surprised if some men imagine that 1099 3| point very clear, little suspecting that what you advance leads 1100 1| any motions in our bodies—suspending, exerting, or altering, 1101 1| be tempted to entertain suspicions concerning the most important 1102 3| notions.~PHIL. When a man is swayed, he knows not why, to one 1103 1| sensible, as some degree of swiftness or slowness, some certain 1104 1| figures, with a certain symmetry and composition of the whole?~ 1105 3| disengaged from all such sympathy, or natural ties. No corporeal 1106 3| ourselves, and see no sign or symptom whatever that leads to a 1107 3| called IGNORATIO ELENCHI. You talked often as if you thought 1108 3| softness, moisture, redness, tartness, and you take away the cherry, 1109 3| cannot be seen, or felt, or. tasted: it is therefore red. Take 1110 2| remove part of a rock, or tear up a tree by the roots. 1111 2| mind?~HYL. You are always teasing me for reasons of my belief. 1112 2| vault! Yet, if you take the telescope, it brings into your sight 1113 3| new notions. My endeavours tend only to unite, and place 1114 1| your concessions, nowhere tended to prove that the Secondary 1115 1| with you, as to the ill tendency of the affected doubts of 1116 3| it can serve to make your tenet of an unperceiving material 1117 2| is nothing strange that tenets which in themselves are 1118 3| have in making men humble, thankful, and resigned to their great 1119 3| are directly opposite to theirs.~PHIL. You see, Hylas, the 1120 | thereof 1121 | thereupon 1122 1| external light is nothing but a thin fluid substance, whose minute 1123 3| absurd to suppose them? Thirdly, Whether, upon inquiry, 1124 3| figure: that a thing stupid, thoughtless, and inactive, operates 1125 3| prejudice, or passion, or thoughtlessness, may be imputed to God, 1126 | throughout 1127 3| weight of prejudice, let us throw into the scale the great 1128 3| all which is that we are thrown into the most hopeless and 1129 3| things, and liable to be thwarted or resisted by nothing: 1130 3| such sympathy, or natural ties. No corporeal motions are 1131 3| uncertain. What we approve today, we condemn tomorrow. We 1132 2| unlimited agent useth no tool or instrument at all. The 1133 1| object are either changed, or totally disappear? Nay, all other 1134 1| solitude of a garden and tranquillity of the morning naturally 1135 3| preceding and subsequent transactions of our lives, they might 1136 3| beginning. God is a Being of transcerident and unlimited perfections: 1137 2| For example, suppose a traveller should tell you that in 1138 2| how mere jargon should be treated.~HYL. To deal frankly with 1139 2| and beyond thought! What treatment, then, do those philosophers 1140 3| perceive it as I perceive a triangle, a colour, or a sound. The 1141 3| spared yourself abundance of trouble in objecting; since of all 1142 3| follow they are not to be trusted; or that they are inconsistent 1143 3| be represented as one who trusts his senses, who thinks he 1144 1| concerning the most important truths, which they had hitherto 1145 1| is not DISTANCE a line turned endwise to the eye?~HYL. 1146 1| colours, or in opening and turning the eyes?~HYL. Without doubt, 1147 3| observe that sin or moral turpitude doth not consist in the 1148 1| should succeed one another twice as fast in your mind as 1149 3| Do I not acknowledge a twofold state of things—the one 1150 3| the use of limited powers, ultimately indeed derived from God, 1151 3| outward shell remaining unaltered, the chambers are all pulled 1152 2| arguments seem in themselves unanswerable; but they have not so great 1153 1| from those perceived by the unassisted sight. And, in case we had 1154 3| Divine nature, which is unavoidable on any scheme; but from 1155 3| opinions are alike vain and uncertain. What we approve today, 1156 3| plunges us yet deeper in uncertainty. Again, when we consider 1157 3| know not what) one single, unchanged, unperceivable, real Nature, 1158 1| only with one simple or uncompounded idea, it follows that this 1159 1| CONCEIVING a thing which is UNCONCEIVED?~HYL. It is.~PHIL. The, 1160 3| which shock the genuine uncorrupted judgment of all mankind; 1161 1| philosophic notions seem uncouth and out of the way.~PHIL. 1162 3| the common, natural, and undebauched notions of mankind; that 1163 1| that the greater were more undoubtedly real than the lesser?~HYL. 1164 1| is merely a vibrative or undulatory motion the air.~PHIL. I 1165 3| are sometimes painful and uneasy. But God, whom no external 1166 1| appears to the other, great, uneven, and regular?~HYL. The very 1167 2| hath not this shifting, unfair method of yours spun out 1168 2| there still stands out ungrasped a surplusage immeasurable. 1169 2| certain country men pass unhurt through the fire; and, upon 1170 3| speech, some regarding the uniformness of what was perceived, might 1171 3| a SPIRIT, but Matter an unintelligent, unperceiving being. If 1172 2| not conceive it, you talk unintelligibly, instead of forming a reasonable 1173 2| she perceives them by her union with the substance of God, 1174 3| endeavours tend only to unite, and place in a clearer 1175 1| be so.~PHIL. But it is a universally received maxim that EVERYTHING 1176 | unlike 1177 2| spun out our dispute to an unnecessary length; Matter having been 1178 3| one single, unchanged, unperceivable, real Nature, marked by 1179 1| hitherto held sacred and unquestionable.~PHIL. I entirely agree 1180 3| therefore that there is ANY UNTHINKING-SUBSTRATUM of the objects of sense, 1181 1| existing unperceived or unthought of; not considering that 1182 3| your opinion, and that no unthought-of objection or difficulty 1183 | until 1184 | unto 1185 1| It is indeed something unusual; but my thoughts were so 1186 1| too. But, since you are unwilling to have your notion of corporeal 1187 3| fountain, how it is forced upwards, in a round column, to a 1188 3| Whether it be agreeable to the usage either of philosophers or 1189 3| a part of knowledge both useful and entertaining.~HYL. After 1190 3| tell me if they are not a useless and unintelligible jargon.~ 1191 2| supreme unlimited agent useth no tool or instrument at 1192 3| authorised: nothing being more usual, than for philosophers to 1193 3| Cartesians, and the like sects usually do; and for a long time 1194 3| in behalf of that avowed utter ignorance of their natures, 1195 2| those wild imaginations of Vanini, Hobbes, and Spinoza: in 1196 2| attention, it hath quite vanished out of sight. The more I 1197 1| than that of a dark mist or vapour?~HYL. I must own, Philonous, 1198 3| our ideas are perpetually varied, without any change in the 1199 1| object, the visible extension varies, being at one distance ten 1200 2| thereby made in the brain, is variously affected with ideas.~PHIL. 1201 2| immeasurable. Yet all the vast bodies that compose this 1202 2| throughout the whole azure vault! Yet, if you take the telescope, 1203 3| time, a parcel of plants or vegetables of all sorts produced, by 1204 2| relish for them, is not the veil of night alternately drawn 1205 1| me to go on in the same vein; not that I would by any 1206 1| determined, if you will venture to think as freely concerning 1207 3| it proved to him from the veracity of God; or to pretend our 1208 2| covered with a delightful verdure? Is there not something 1209 1| at once put into the same vessel of water, in an intermediate 1210 1| of the ear, it causeth a vibration, which by the auditory nerves 1211 1| same thing happens upon viewing an object in various degrees 1212 3| innovations I endeavour to vindicate Common Sense. It is true, 1213 1| positive in the point. A very violent and painful heat cannot 1214 1| with. And, it being too visibly absurd to hold that pain 1215 1| smells, have something more vividly pleasing or disagreeable 1216 2| which belongs to Matter, viz. MOTION.~PHIL. I find you 1217 3| to be determined by most voices, I am confident you would 1218 2| because it is altogether voluntary and of your own head, you 1219 3| point, without gathering the votes.~PHIL. I wish both our opinions 1220 1| understand it in.—How long must I wait for an answer, Hylas?~HYL. 1221 2| that there are trees that walk upon two legs, meaning men 1222 3| suppose a house, whose walls or outward shell remaining 1223 1| substance, men are more easily weaned from believing the external 1224 3| can assault me with my own weapons.~PHIL. Then as to ABSOLUTE 1225 1| for their preservation and well-being in life? or were they given 1226 1| memory. Though indeed we went through all the qualities 1227 2| be the figure, springs, wheels, and motions, of that instrument?~ 1228 | Whenever 1229 | whereby 1230 3| not it will appear every whit as false: let me but be 1231 3| are in the right to deny whiteness or heat to be affections 1232 1| object, and will cause the whitest to appear of a deep blue 1233 1| examine whose notions are widest of the common road, and 1234 3| principle that perceives, knows, wifls, and operates about ideas. 1235 2| is there not an agreeable wildness? How sincere a pleasure 1236 3| what He had not actually willed before, but only designed 1237 2| were convinced; or are you willing I should repeat what has 1238 3| you may perhaps act as wisely as he that should conclude 1239 3| considered, it be not the wisest way to follow nature, trust 1240 3| sufficient pretence for withholding your full assent, you should 1241 3| of bodies. And what can withstand demonstration?~PHIL. Let 1242 3| from its being perceived. Wood, stones, fire, water, flesh, 1243 2| there not something in the woods and groves, in the rivers 1244 2| take away all scruple, and work a plenary assent in the 1245 2| creation, that it was the workmanship of God. But that—setting 1246 3| Suppose you are going to write, would you not call for 1247 3| him, or any other inspired writer, it would still be incumbent 1248 3| Materialists and the inspired writings?~HYL. And so I am.~PHIL. 1249 1| alteration without some change wrought in the very bodies themselves: 1250 1| delightful season of the year? That purple sky, those 1251 3| between your own ideas. That yellowness, that weight, and other 1252 1| Philonous, I fear I was out in yielding intense heat to be a pain.