And it
is against these and the like innovations I endeavour to
vindicate Common Sense. It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps
be obliged to use some
, and ways of speech not common.
But, if my notions are once thoroughly understood, that which is
most singular in them will, in effect, be found to amount to no
more than this. -- that it is absolutely impossible, and a plain
contradiction, to suppose any unthinking Being should exist
without being perceived by a Mind. And, if this notion be
singular, it is a shame it should be so, at this time of day, and
in a Christian country.
. As for the difficulties other opinions may be liable
to,. those are out of the question. It is your business to defend
your own opinion. Can anything be plainer than that you are for
changing all things into ideas? You, I say, who are not ashamed
to charge me . This is so plain, there is no
denying it.
. You mistake me. I am not for changing things into
ideas, but rather ideas into things; since those immediate
objects of perception, which, according to you, are only
appearances of things, I take to be the real things themselves.
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