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 1 XII |          allowed to clear up that matter): "He was so great a man,"
 2 XIII|    thought, in the same manner as matter, in his opinion, is the
 3 XIII|       those who know more of this matter than myself, the examining
 4 XIII|        whether the declaring that matter can think, implies a contradiction;
 5 XIII|         to communicate thought to matter. But divines are too apt
 6 XIII|         more is required, and the matter is cleared up at once. But
 7 XIII|          that's all I know of the matter. Shall I ascribe to an unknown
 8 XIII|   consequently the soul cannot be matter. All this so often repeated
 9 XIII|          absolutely ignorant what matter is; I guess, but imperfectly,
10 XIII|          maintain positively that matter cannot think. In this manner
11 XIII|          cannot comprehend either matter or spirit, why will you
12 XIII|           for the Creator to form matter with thought and sensation?
13 XIII|           power of God to animate matter, and inform it with sensation,
14 XIII|           of beasts, who are mere matter, with the faculties of sensation
15 XIV |   composed of vortices of subtile matter; but nothing like it is
16 XIV |       acids, alkalies and subtile matter; but attraction prevails
17 XIV |          the soul, nor on that of matter. Descartes, as I observed
18 XIV |       extension alone constitutes matter, but Sir Isaac adds solidity
19 XIV |        the existence of a God, in matter, in the laws of motion,
20 XV  |        filled with a very subtile matter, since this is imperceptible
21 XV  |         imperceptible to us; this matter goes from west to east,
22 XV  |         vast whirlpool of subtile matter, in which the planets are
23 XV  |           velocity of the subtile matter that turns round our little
24 XV  |           velocity of the subtile matter, should first have been
25 XV  |         such thing as a celestial matter which goes from west to
26 XV  | proportionably to the quantity of matter in bodies, a truth, which
27 XV  |        ratio of their quantity of matter combined with their nearness.
28 XV  |           compute the quantity of matter contained in the sun and
29 XV  |     proportion to the quantity of matter contained in them, it can
30 XV  |       have known that a celestial matter was the agent. But so far
31 XV  |    knowing that there is any such matter, I have proved it to be
32 XV  |   principle-a quality inherent in matter, the cause of which persons
33 XV  |   proportion to their quantity of matter; that these central forces
34 XVI |         false to assert that this matter, spreading itself through
35 XVI |          is a cubic inch of solid matter in the universe, so far
36 XVI |           we from conceiving what matter is. Having thus divided,
37 XVII|          that other, namely, that matter is divisible in infinitum.