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XXXI. There is another particular here,which I cannot help remarking, tho’ it is al-most superfluous; which is this, because moecannot conceive how matter adis on spirit, orspirit on matter , we fall to making hypo-theses and conjectures, which we might aswell let alone; for these suppositions onlygive us ease through a mistake. Thus somemake all created spirits not wholly free frommatter, that they may be acted upon by mat-ter. Others rarify matter to a vast degree,and make spirit of that; and others havegiven our souls material vehicles, to give andtake impressions to and from matter. But ifthis matter with which spirit is mixed, (as itis expressed) be not resisting matter, it castnever make any impression on the matter ofthe body, which is resisting matter, and re-quires force or moment in the matter thatmakes an impression upon it. So that it wereas good to give spirit no material vehicle, asa vehicle of unresisting matter; since it muss,notwithstanding this vehicle, make it* 1 "pression upon body immediately by itself :and we had as good give it no vehicle at all,as a vehicle of resisting matter; since sp^

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