I was. But here lies the difference. Before, my
positiveness was founded, without examination, upon prejudice;
but now, after inquiry, upon evidence.
. After all, it seems our dispute is rather about words
than things. We agree in the thing, but differ in the name. That
we are affected with ideas is evident; and it is
no less evident that there must be (I will not say archetypes,
but) Powers without the mind, corresponding to those ideas. And,
as these Powers cannot subsist by themselves, there is some
subject of them necessarily to be admitted; which I call
, and you call . This is all the difference.
. Pray, Hylas, is that powerful Being, or subject of
powers, extended?
. It hath not extension; but it hath the power to raise
in you the idea of extension.
. It is therefore itself unextended?
. I grant it.
. Is it not also active?
. Without doubt. Otherwise, how could we attribute
powers to it?
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