andshewn inconclusive. 275

this then ends in the following ehildijh•sophism; sensible things are but the objedlsfense. Whenever they are not the objects^ tense, they are no longer sensible things.herefore, when they are not the objects ofttfe, or not perceived, they are not. But'''Quid not D. B. allow his house to be abusible thing, unless it were actually on111-6 ? He might, with equal force of reasonP r °ve, that unless it were in flame, it weren ° house at all.

Xvi. This is his demonstration. Wefarther observe that it doth no great ho-h°Ur to this new scheme, nor those who pre.

to admire it, that it forces the Author^ suspect, that even Mathematicks may note very found knowledge at the bottom. In118. he fays, “ To be plain, we fuf-, t P e ct the Mathematicians are no less deep-, c ^y concerned, than other men in the errors, t ar ising from abstract general ideas, and thee xistence of objects without the mind."in Sect. 119. he fays, the theorems in^j^nietiok are difficiles nugce. A man oughtj. have a vast deal of merit, and to have ob-^ the world with surprising discoveries, toT 2 justify