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distinct objects, without a contradi$i° n 1ifterms : this puts D. B. to the trouble of^ n 'other demonstration, as much as if it W erethe real cafe that obtains.

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XIII. His second question is, And i wh$pray yon do we perceive , bejides oar ownand sensations f A consistent answer to th* 5follows from what was said just now. ^perceive, besides our sensations themfeh^'the objeSfs of them; or we perceive obj eC ^existing from without, by the mediation 0sensation, or motion produced; since we ^conscious not only of sensation excited, hthat it is excited by some cause besidesselves; for we suffer it, often against ° stwill. This cause we call matter: and P-fays it is God Almighty. Hitherto there I scontradiction. He fays it is one thing , andfay it is another: and so far he hath no seafon to fay we contradict ourselves, more th'.we have to fay the fame ofhim: nay n° smuch. It is pleasant to observe D. -B.’ S a

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dress: he would have us to allow that rst# 1 ^is a sensation ; or that our sensations are _fame thing with their objeSls, which be 111the thing in debate, is still begging the a

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