Z 28 Matter not eternal and uncaused’

II. This might suffice; but this old con’’troyersy is still varied into new and differed

forms;

itself, afford one single thought, never occasio 11 °J“ give rise to any thing like sense and knowledge. The' 1 ”“ argument will hold good against a Democritus, an /“ picurusj or any of the elder or latter Atomijls. B utwill be turned on them by an examining Acade^f ’“ and when the two substances are fairly set asund ef ’“ and considered apart, as different kinds ; ’twi^ ^“ as strong sense, and as good argument, to fay as“ of the immaterial kind, That do with it as you pl e “^’“ modify it a thousand ways, purify it, exalt it, ^lime it, torture it ever so much, or pack it, as $$“ fay, with thinking; you will never be able to f° rC“ the contrary substance opt of it. The poor dregs off 011 '“ ry matter can no more be made put of the j }“ pure substance of immaterial thought, than the h't“ spirits of thought or reason, can be extractedSC the gross substance of heavy matter. So let the“ tists make of this argument what they can.”

This is a bullying defiance, and the argument is tre ** (ed in a very metaphorical manner. But passing ty 0 jthings, the Academijl grants here, both matf i a \ ***immaterial substance to exist, or a substance vvbi c• solid and resisting, and a substance thinking and i sl(:egent, as distinguished, and (it seems) equally et ^ r ^pAnd he will be forced to own that if there be an >! \^Jigent Being any way perfect, there must be an