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My dear Friend, have not you and I concluded an hundred times, that how much soever we strained our Understanding, we could never concsive how from Insensible Corpuscles there could ever result any thing sensible, without the intervention of any thing but what is Insensible; and that with all their Atoms, how small and how nimble soever they make them, what motions and figures soever they give them, and in what order, mixture, or disposition they range them; yea, and whatever industrious hand they assign them for Guidance, they would never be able (still supposing with them, that they have no other properties or perfection than those recited) to make us imagin how thence could result a Compound, I say not that should be Reasoning like a man, but that should be meerly Sensitive, such as may be the vilest and most imperfect worm on earth. How then dare they pretend that they will make it out, how thence can result a thing Imagining, a thing Reasoning, and such an one as shall be the Imaginations and Ratiocinations themselves. Mr. Bernier's Letter of Atoms and the mind of man, p. ult. |
My dear Friend, have not you and I concluded an hundred times, that how much soever we strained our Understanding, we could never concsive how from Insensible Corpuscles there could ever result any thing sensible, without the intervention of any thing but what is Insensible; and that with all their Atoms, how small and how nimble soever they make them, what motions and figures soever they give them, and in what order, mixture, or disposition they range them; yea, and whatever Industria hand they assign them for Guidance, they would never be able (still supposing with them, that they have no other properties or perfection than those recited) to make us imagine how thence could result a Compound, I say not that should be Reasoning like a man, but that should be merely Sensitive, such as may be the Vilest and most imperfect worm on earth. How then Dare they pretend that they will make it out, how thence can result a thing Imagining, a thing Reasoning, and such an one as shall be the Imaginations and Ratiocinations themselves. Mr. Bernier's letter of Atoms and the mind of man, p. ult. |
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