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the parts of other matter to stick togethes>and make up a solid substance, but by pres-sure on them, gravitation towards them, ofbeing attracted by them: but we have seekthat these are the impulses of an immaterialAgent, and no powers inherent in mattes*The hypothesis of hamuli or branchings, thatkeep together the parts of bodies, by beinKentangled and implicated into one another, I sliable to equal difficulty; for still it remainto be explained what makes the parts ofthese hooks so firmly cohere.

VIII. But we may be satisfied from th creasoning above, that this cohesion is the ef-fect of the constant action of the Author ofmatter upon it. Formatter considered sim-ply in itself, can only resist a change of i^state of rest, in proportion to its quantityand is incapable of any greater degree of re*

chanical one; Then the search is supposed endle^*Where would we turn next, if we could give the

chanical cause of gravity?-To search the

chanical cause of that cause ? At last, because our sacubties cannot go higher, we must leave the whole in doubt*ft is easy here to mistake the end os our enquiries, and ^slink ourselves disappointed in finding what we first ftrut in search of ; to wit , The first and immechanical caift

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