andfhenson inconclusive . 257

Can v * nc b cate d fr° m ^is contradic-to j P roce dure, I do not fee: for he pretendsist ernon ft rate the impossibility of the ex-** of mens bodies , and thereby denies allence that other men can have for the ex-j Q ^ riCe of their fouls ; which indeed amounts^ en ying their existence altogether, andde-^ ^^tating the impossibility of it to thosey beings at the fame time.

The great reason why this Author

% t0 doubt of the existence of material

a nce, or to demonstrate it impossible,o^ eCa usc we are percipient of nothing but ourc 5 / Inceptions and ideas 5 and because figure,

)

r ef stance, &c. is not this substance (h).

the Cyclopædia, the citation above begins thus;^gainst the existence of Bodies, or any external

ti e j

•th,

'Mr

er

Berkeley argues very strenuously.)-

-That

: Sin < - Ur ^mgbts, passions, nor ideas formed by the•°W e( j atl °st, exist without the mind, he observes is al-J 3n< t that the various sensations impressed on the°^j e ^ s they ma y compose, cannot existe ^an in a mind perceiving them, is not less"t'bi s a pp ears from the meaning of the term

v,! ^nt

Here, that sensations compose their ob-c al e ' allts a little proof, and is at best a very equi-■y P re flion

°L.

113 on.

II.

Now