But what else is this than to play with words, and run
into that very fault you just now condemned with so much reason?
I do by no means find fault with your reasoning, in that you
collect a cause from the
: I deny that
cause deducible by reason can properly be termed Matter.
. There is indeed something in what you say. But I am
{217} afraid you do not thoroughly comprehend my meaning. I would
by no means be thought to deny that God, or an infinite Spirit,
is the Supreme Cause of all things. All I contend for is, that,
subordinate to the Supreme Agent, there is a cause of a limited
and inferior nature, which in the production of our
ideas, not by any act of will, or spiritual efficiency, but by
that kind of action which belongs to Matter, viz. .
. I find you are at every turn relapsing into your old
exploded conceit, of a moveable, and consequently an extended,
substance, existing without the mind. What! Have you already
forgotten you were convinced; or are you willing I should repeat
what has been said on that head? In truth this is not fair
dealing in you, still to suppose the being of that which you have
so often acknowledged to have no being.
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