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piece of mechanism finer and finer still, wereliable to greater and more sensible alterations;this would never infer that it was movedwithout a power , or had no other mover,but the mechanical conjiguration of parts.Hence therefore, if it is certain from otherreasons, that the foul is immaterial j thesedifferent affections it suffers from the body,can avail nothing to conclude, that it wasbut the result of mechanism. Lastly, let usconsider that a man is in a different temperfrom himself, when without the circum-stances of the present phænomenon, andperfectly sober: as when calm or in passion,in affliction or joy, &c. where the foul af-fects the body instead of being affected by it.Yet no man would make this difference anargument for material fouls. Such a circum-stance, where the reverse of the thing ob-jected happens, shews that men mistake thisappearance wilfully. For as Mr. Woliastonwell argues, a single word spoke, or suppos-ing it but spoke, or mistaking one word foranother, or looking simply on a piece of pa-per where it is written, sills the foul withrage and fury; and thence at length disturbsthe body. And how can that thing be ma-terial.