But, not to insist
farther on what has been so largely handled, I ask whether all
your ideas are not perfectly passive and inert, including nothing
of action in them.
. They are.
. And are sensible qualities anything else but ideas?
. How often have I acknowledged that they are not.
. But is not a sensible quality?
. It is.
. Consequently it is no action?
. I agree with you. And indeed it is very plain that
when I stir my finger, it remains passive; but my will which
produced the motion is active.
. Now, I desire to know, in the first place, whether,
motion being allowed to be no action, you can conceive any action
besides volition: and, in the second place, whether to say
something and conceive nothing be not to talk nonsense: and,
lastly, whether, having considered the premises, you do not
perceive that to suppose any efficient or active Cause of our
ideas, other than , is highly absurd and unreasonable?
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