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ent of the action of material objects uponit. And neither this simplicity of the atten-tion itself in any manner accords with a ma-terial percipient (N° 8. Sect. 3.) nor the vo-luntary turning it away from the present so-licitation N° 4. of this.)

XXII. Moreover our bodies must be al-ways in contact with something or other,which supports their weight; and this, whe-ther we walk , fit or lye ; that is to say, sinceaction and re-action are equal, our bodies arealways pressed with a force equal to their ownweight. This pressure is constant, and stillthe same, when the body is best disposed.But if the percipient within us were material,this great and constant pressure ought to so-licit it constantly, and as much as any pres-sure or force that were not greater; whichindeed is not so: for often it is not percipientof this force at all, and often it is more per-cipient of a smaller force. Nor can it besaid that the continual pressure gradually les-sens the sense of the force impressed; for theforce constantly acts, and the impression isconstantly made, and the mind at any timebecomes percipient of it, by directing the

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