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ed part, the quick sense of pain should befelt in both parts equally. And since mattercannot be percipient, it cannot have ideas;ideas are perceived, and are consequently no-thing but perceptions; and therefore it can-not have sensation, feeling, or life, becauseall these imply perception (y).

XXX. From this we may fee what littlereason Mr. Locke had to be so peremptory inhis dispute with the bishop of Worcejlertfoovtthe possibility of matter’s thinking; where,to prove it possible, he says, " For example," God creates an extended solid substance," without superadding any thing else to it," and so we may consider it at rest: to some" parts of it he superadds motion, but it has" still the essence of matter. Other parts of“ it he frames into plants, with all the eX-" cellencies of vegetation, life, and beauty,“ which is to be found in a rose or a peach -" tree, above the essence of matter in gene-

(q) This whole argument that matter cannot thinknor move itself, concludes in much fe^er words, f r0lTlconsidering the endless divisibility of it; which shall beinsisted on, when we come to consider the pleasures 3"pains of the body, as distinct from those of the mind-