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impulse than another. It might also beshewn, (from this principle, the want of ma-terial solicitation, I mean) that the power offorming abstract ideas, or abstracting percep-tion from all matter j the power of imagina-tion, or forming compound ideas no way im-pressed by matter; I fay, it might be strewnby particular deductions from this principle,that these and other activities of the foul,could no way belong to a material Percipient;But pasting by these, (stnce the theory in Sect."2. makes these minute ways of arguing unne-cessary;)! shall only name another particular,that should practically satisfy us of the imma-teriality of our thinking part. And that isthe consideration of the indefeajibleness or itn-‘weariedness of the principle of thought in us.We feel our bodies every now and then sink-ing down under their own infirmities : butthe thing that thinks in us would never giveover, if the body could keep up with it. Itis busy all the day with the body, and all thenight without the body, and all the day withthe body again: and thus in a constant circle,without respite or intermission that we canperceive (N°2 3- of the last) by our strictestenquiry. For the body no sooner sinks downsVol. I. F f in