And this, you must needs
acknowledge, sounds very oddly.
. I own the word , not being commonly used for
, sounds something out of the way. My reason for using it
was, because a necessary relation to the mind is understood to
{236} be implied by that term; and it is now commonly used by
philosophers to denote the immediate objects of the
understanding. But, however oddly the proposition may sound in
words, yet it includes nothing so very strange or shocking in its
sense; which in effect amounts to no more than this, to wit, that
there are only things perceiving, and things perceived; or that
every unthinking being is necessarily, and from -the very nature
of its existence, perceived by some mind; if not by a finite
created mind, yet certainly by the infinite mind of God, in whom
"we five, and move, and have our being." Is this as strange as to
say, the sensible qualities are not on the objects: or that we
cannot be sure of the existence of things, or know any thing of
their real natures -- though we both see and feel them, and
perceive them by all our senses?
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