And what you have
offered hath been disapproved and rejected by yourself. If you
have anything new to advance I would gladly bear it.
. I think I have already offered all I had to say on
those heads. I am at a loss what more to urge.
. And yet you are loath to part with your old
prejudice. But, to make you quit it more easily, I desire that,
beside what has been hitherto suggested, you will farther
consider whether, upon. supposition that Matter exists, you can
possibly conceive how you should be affected by it. Or, supposing
it did not exist, whether it be not evident you might for all
that be affected with the same ideas you now are, and
consequently have the very same reasons to believe its existence
that you now can have.
. I acknowledge it is possible we might perceive all
things just as we do now, though there was no Matter in the
world; neither can I conceive, if there be Matter, how it should
produce' any idea in our minds. And, I do farther grant you have
entirely satisfied me that it is impossible there should be such
a thing as matter in any of the foregoing acceptations.
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