I own myself entirely satisfied for the present in
all respects. But, what security can I have that I shall still
continue the same full assent to your opinion, and that no
unthought-of objection or difficulty will occur hereafter?
. Pray, Hylas, do you in other cases, when a point is
once evidently proved, withhold your consent on account of
objections or difficulties it may be liable to? Are the
difficulties that attend the doctrine of incommensurable
quantities, of the angle of contact, of the asymptotes to curves,
or the like, sufficient to make you hold out against mathematical
demonstration? Or will you disbelieve the Providence of God,
because there may be some particular things which you know not
how to reconcile with it? If there are difficulties Immaterialism>, there are at the same time direct and evident
proofs of it. But for the existence of Matter there is not one
proof, and far more numerous and insurmountable objections lie
against it. But where are those mighty difficulties you insist
on? Alas! you know not where or what they are; something which
may possibly occur hereafter.
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