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" All these may be only dream and shadow. All wl'icb e ^ s“ sense suggests may be deceitful; thesense itself*< still; reason subsists; and thought maintains > ts e ^<e ship of Being, esV.” This is carrying things t°° ^

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are sure of the existence of matter by being confc'° u ^ o(having perceptions of some kind; that as long as ^ ^sensations remain, this is certain; and that our very 0 e

shew that all else is not a dream. This Author elf eVl ^makes matter as necessary as thought itself-, and ^ jfays, all that sense suggests may be but a dream. st lStQ reconcile this. If matter be as necessary as thand yet but a dream, nothing at all will be lest rC ^ .^e

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Spirits have a superior power or faculty of concent,tended substance, and not our formal manner of^^tion-, but this, I think, is as it should be; agre e °reason and philosophy. We are under a necessity?been said before, of applying to impressions on th e ,a Sry; being by our union kept at a distance from th eof sensation: in such a state the sensory must be ary artifice to supply that defect. Hence our prest 0 ^^gination and reminiscence , are but a kind of v ' tcart °^seculties, in which separate Spirits must exceed us- ^inferior helps seem in them to be swallowed up in ' inte r „or the best way of conceiving. That wonderful a PP ^ance taken notice of in the end of the last - jS nmakes this in some measure conceivable. That tn _superior way in this cafe is certain. The Deity is n ° ^gfined to our narrow faculty of imagination; every ^is intelledt in him. It may be so in a lower