It is true I have denied there are any
other agents besides spirits; but this is very consistent with
allowing to thinking rational beings, in the production of
motions, the use of limited powers, ultimately indeed derived
from God, but immediately under the direction of their own wills,
which is sufficient to entitle them to all the guilt of their
actions.
. But the denying Matter, Philonous, or corporeal
Substance; there is the point. You can never persuade me that
this is not repugnant to the universal sense of mankind. Were our
dispute to be determined by most voices, I am confident you would
give up the point, without gathering the votes.
. I wish both our opinions were fairly stated and
submitted to the judgment of men who had plain common sense,
without the prejudices of a learned education. Let me be
represented as one who trusts his senses, who thinks he knows the
things he sees and feels, and entertains no doubts of their
existence; and you fairly set forth with all your doubts, your
paradoxes, and your scepticism about you, and I shall willingly
acquiesce in the determination of any indifferent person.
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