I say, lastly, that I have a notion of Spirit, though I
have not, strictly speaking, an idea of it. I do not perceive it
as an idea, or by means of an idea, but know it by reflexion.
. Notwithstanding all you have said, to me it seems
that, according to your own way of thinking, and in consequence
of your own principles, it should follow that are only a
system of floating ideas, without any substance to support them.
Words are not to be used without a meaning. And, as there is no
more meaning in than in Substance>, the one is to be exploded as well as the other.
. How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious
of my own being; and that am not my ideas, but
somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives,
knows, wifls, and operates about ideas. I know that I, one {234}
and the same self, perceive both colours and sounds: that a
colour cannot perceive a sound, nor a sound a colour: that I am
therefore one individual principle, distinct from colour and
sound; and, for the same reason, from aft other sensible things
and inert ideas.
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