of the soul confidered\ 383

doth the body (r). The modern Sceptic al-ways quotes this with great security and tri-umph; but let him seriously reflect how lit-tle it concludes. For since by N° 2 and 3,(not to go farther back to other arguments)it is the greatest contradiction that spontane-ous motion, in the meanest infect; that thevery irrational foul in brutes; that wordsspoke ever so much at random; that anyperception or idea, how wild soever, shouldbe the effect of pure mechanism: how mucha greater impossibility is it, that such a nobleappearance as reason dijiurbed (for, in respectof the brute-nature, even that is an appearanceof great dignity) that such a superior appear-ance, I say, should be the result of a mecha-nical disposition of matter! If reason disturb-ed is the result of mechanism disturbed, rea-son is the result of mechanism. Doth not thisleave the assertion still loaded with all thatheap of intolerable absurdities mentioned in2 ? Reason disturbed is a complex ap-

0) 9$uin etlam morbis in carports avius errat ,

Scepe animus ; dementis enim, deliraque fatur , tdc.

Lib. 3. ver. 464. and again ver. 309.Et quoniam mentem sanari , corpus ut œgrum,Cernimus ; & fedti medicina pojse videmusId quoque prœfagit mortalm vivere mentem, &e.

pearance,