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thn. Though we know not all its powers, yet we knowcertainly, that it cannot have inconsistent apd contra-dictory powers, ibid. Opposite tendencies in matter, mustproceed from external action in it,,and can never be madeconsistent in the fame individual ipbstance, i. 139,17, a.

Matter, 7. Extremely probable, that higher orders of be-ings, have the power of moving; hiatter in a very highdegree, i. 177, n. Supposing matter to have existed with-out a cause, yet even in that cafe, no new single combi-nation of things, could have happened through all eter-nity, i. 182, 26. See 10, below, margin. Incapable of ,spontaneity of thought, and all kind of activity, i. 186,27. And even allowing it to be percipient, yet it must beas inactive in all fenses, as it could be without percep-tion, i. 189, 28. But as it is not percipient, i. 190, 29,it must, for that reason, be incapable of ideas, and con-sequently cannot have sensation, feeling, or life, ibid.

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---8. Cannot be annihilated but by infinite power, J-

218, I, to 6. All changes which happen to matter, areeffected in it, because it is compounded of parts, each ofwhich has the essential properties of the whole, of whichit is a part, as much as the whole hath, i. 227, 6. Anychange in any indivisible of matter, supposing such posii-ble, implies a contradiction, ibid. f, ibid. If the matterof our bodies were such an indivisible, we could not beaffected with the changes we are now affected with, ib-• 9. Matter may be an impeding cause of the power

of an active being, but can never be the promoting causeof it. See Soul, 5, marg. and Organs, 2, marg. A verymoderate quantity of it, might fill the whole sphere oti'aturn, i. 292, 4. However modified, cannot endue thefoul with a perceptive capacity of any objects, i. 296, °. -For the mutual action of matter and spirit on each olhct-See Soul, 7, marg. To fay that there is no other cause b umatter in the world, an express contradiction, i- 361, 3 'Matter and mechanism not the cause of dreaming. ° e

Dreaming.

-10. Matter not eternal, and uncaused, nor the etc

nrd effect of an eternal cause.

Its rife and origin naturally and easily determined, u- ? ’

1. ’Tis impossible to conceive it self-existent, and uncr2ted, ibid. c. , jy

The two general hypotheses men have chosen to ^