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do not tell us so. Whence we suppose, (withprobability indeed) that they have obj e $ Salso presented to them. And from this ag alflwe conclude, supposing these objects asesuch as could not be produced without <1designing cause, and that they are forceupon their perceptivity, as we know the cas 6is with us; they must b6 produced by iu c ^a cause. Here the conclusion is not moretain, than the matter of faff that leads to it'and as certain it must be. This certainty jS

not so great, as when we make the cond 6 'sion with respect to ourselves; for then ^infer from our own consciousness and expert'ence ; but in this case from probability only*and from conjeBure in part. And in th 1 *there is no apparent absurdity. As to th 6reasons (supposing all that is desired)these superior Beings should be busied in th 1 *low occupation; it is not necessary to the co 11 'elusion, to pretend to know, or assign theU 1 'Yet it could not be shewn to be an absurdity*or even any thing unphilosophical, if ol)S

At variæ fugiunt volucres, pinnisque repente ySollicitant dlvum notiurno tempore lucosAccipitres somno in leni si prcelia, pugnasqueEdere snt perseftantes , vifœque voiantes.

Ibid''

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