I give up the point entirely. But, though Matter may
not be a cause, yet what hinders its being an
,
subservient to the supreme Agent in the production of our ideas?
. An instrument say you; pray what may be the figure,
springs, wheels, and motions, of that instrument?
. Those I pretend to determine nothing of, both the
substance and its qualities being entirely unknown to me.
. What? You are then of opinion it is made up of {218}
unknown parts, that it hath unknown motions, and an unknown
shape?
. I do not believe that it hath any figure or motion at
all, being already convinced, that no sensible qualities can
exist in an unperceiving substance.
. But what notion is it possible to frame of an
instrument void of all sensible qualities, even extension itself?
. I do not pretend to have any notion of it.
. And what reason have you to think this unknown, this
inconceivable Somewhat doth exist? Is it that you imagine God
cannot act as well without it; or that you find by experience the
use of some such thing, when you form ideas in your own mind?
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