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& u ftientj by an equivocal question. So he^’ght prove that, if a man in a dark night^ ere groping out his way, with a long polelri jsts hand, and felt something resist it,made him turn another way, lest hepuld run his head against the wall; so he^ght prove, I fay, that it were a contra-rian for the man to fay, there was anylln g there, besides the pole itself, by this

^ me query -For what, I pray you, fays

do you perceive, besides the pole in yourhand ?

XIV. We may here again observe, as in8. that this query of D. jB.’s easily turnsAgainst himself. We say, that which excitesCations in us is generally the objects of*We sensations, existing from without: un-in the instances of dreams and phren-in which there is still a manifest dif-ere nce from ordinary sensation. He says,^°d, w ho is not the object of our fenfati-^ ns > is the immediate cause of them. Howoth he disprove what we assert ? Thus.*ou perceive nothing but your perceptions.* "e cause of your perceptions, which youis not your perceptions themselves.

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