40 8 Obje&ions to the immateriality

applicable here, which I need not repeat.If some diseases affect the sensory, (as everymaterial part maybe affected with some dis-order) drunkenness is a disease, and muff* ifany other, strongly affect it. For spirituousand fiery liquors, mixing in great quantitywith the blood, and being diffused into allparts of the body, and especially the brain,(the regia animce , as Borelli calls it above)must occasion a notable change in the mecha-nical motions of the ceconomy; somethingvery new and unusual to the Sentient thereresiding. Sleep, which is at last brought onby all this hurry and disorder , the head-achs,fevers, &c. which succeed, shew this to beso. And it is not only easily conceivable,that the percipient being should be affectedwith this commotion in the matter to whichit is united ; but (as I argued above in N° i o.)it is inconceivable that it should not. Howis it at all affected, or made percipient ofexternal things, but by motion excited in thesensory? And if other unnatural motions areexcited in the same sensory; how can it beimpercipient of them, by the law and con-dition of its union ? Indeed I may fay, tosatisfy the Sceptic, that the foul is immaterial,

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