-- Why so silent, Hylas? Are you not yet satisfied men
may dispute about identity and diversity, without any real
difference in their thoughts and opinions, abstracted from names?
Take this farther reflexion with you: that whether Matter be
allowed to exist or no, the case is exactly the same as to the
point in hand. For the Materialists themselves acknowledge what
we immediately perceive by our senses to be our own ideas. Your
difficulty, therefore, that no two see the same thing, makes
equally against the Materialists and me.
. [Ay, Philonous,][10] But they suppose an external
archetype, to which referring their several ideas they may truly
be said to perceive the same thing.
. And (not to mention your having discarded those
archetypes) so may you suppose an external archetype on my
principles; -- , , : though
indeed it must be' supposed to exist in that Mind which
comprehends all things; but then, this serves all the ends of
, as well as if it existed out of a mind.
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