z86 ObjeSHons to the immateriality

the present difficulty, and contends that atleast the perfection of rational thinking de-pends on the mechanism, or right disposition,of the matter of the body; "else why should" an accident, or indisposition os the body dis-“ order our reason ?" This objection is so plau-sible, that the generality of men allow it to bematter of fact, and therefore unanswerable;and yet it is plainly equivocal , and hath, likemost others, a double meaning; one that * sconsistent enough with the immateriality andrational nature of the foul, and another, art-fully shuffled in under colour of that, incon-sistent with both these. I have just besot?observed, That a thing maybe an impedimentwhen wrong , which cannot bean efficient cause-,though right: and therefore the real efficientcause , though it hath in itself all the poW^and arty must depend on this other thing f°*-not hindering or obstructing its operations *and there are abundance of instances whichshew familiarly that the regular exercise of *faculty or power, may be disturbed by th?wrong disposition of an organ or instrument)and yet the skill of the Artist be quite ind?"pendent of the right disposition of it. Th^a Musician can make but bad harmony , 1