andshewn inconclusive. 239

^°n of great capacity and learning seemss l ° ns , and writes pieces, one after another,^pport this kind of Scepticism, and con-0 ^ es in these sentiments for such a numberso ^ CarS ' ^ ^ not carr y in g an ungenteelrt °f a banter a great deal too far, one can-j 1 , te U what to think of it. For it seemsj. P°dible that a man should be seriously per-that he has neither country nor pa-^ ."> nor any material body., nor eats, nornor lyes in a house ; but that all thesej„ ln gs are mere illusions , and have no ex-e nce but in the fancy.

^ ^hat which makes it necessary here tofamine this scheme, which denies the pos-j , Ult y of matter, is because all the argumentsa Ve offered for the Being of a God inI. and II. Vol. I. are drawn from thef deration of this impojjible thing ; viz.w ^ the inertia of matter, the motion of°t)e ^ co ^ e fi on of matter, &c. and every

r eh ^ es w hat impropriety, or rather what^ ll § n a.n ce there must be, to speak of the Mr^ ^Eosideas, \hemotionov gravityoVi&za.s,e ^ a fiicity or cohejion of ideas. Whencet^ e ar guments must amount to nothing, ifert be nothing but ideas instead of the ob-

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