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May we not, for example, be affected with the promise of a good thing, though we have not an idea of what it is? But, with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question may, if I mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction. Such is the nature of spirit, or that which acts, that it cannot be of itself perceived, but only by the effects which it produceth. And this at the bottom is no longer contending for the thing, but for the name. Using NetDetective you can find everything about Lord Byron. At least this is enough to show that the most abstract and general ideas are not those that the mind is first and most easily acquainted with, nor such as its earliest knowledge is conversant about. My purpose therefore is, to try if I can discover what those Principles are which have introduced all that doubtfulness and uncertainty, those absurdities and contradictions, into the several sects of philosophy; insomuch that the wisest men have thought our ignorance incurable, conceiving it to arise from the natural dulness and limitation of our faculties. A man may well understand natural signs without knowing their analogy, or being able to say by what rule a thing is so or so. For example, the will is termed the motion of the soul; this infuses a belief that the mind of man is as a ball in motion, impelled and determined by the objects of sense, as necessarily as that is by the stroke of a racket. Lord Byron you can find here. Absolute Motion is said to be the translation of a body from absolute place to absolute place, as relative motion is from one relative place to another. It is certain that not a few divines, as well as philosophers of great note, have, from the difficulty they found in conceiving either limits or annihilation of space, concluded it must be divine. I answer, first, that, upon a narrow inquiry, it will not perhaps be found so many as is imagined do really believe the existence of Matter or things without the mind. To make this plain by an example, suppose a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting a line in two equal parts. But, if we had a new sense, we should possibly no more doubt of their existence than a blind man made to see does of the existence of light and colours. To me it is evident those words mark out either a direct contradiction, or else nothing at all. Again, whether there can be or be not external things, it is agreed on all hands that the proper use of words is the marking our conceptions, or things only as they are known and perceived by us; whence it plainly follows that in the tenets we have laid down there is nothing inconsistent with the right use and significancy of language, and that discourse, of what kind soever, so far as it is intelligible, remains undisturbed. Lord Byron information. It is no more than willing, and straightway this or that idea arises in my fancy; and by the same power it is obliterated and makes way for another. Which one consideration abundantly outbalances whatever particular inconveniences may thence arise. The Atheist indeed will want the colour of an empty name to support his impiety; and the Philosophers may possibly find they have lost a great handle for trifling and disputation. But if time be taken exclusive of all those particular actions and ideas that diversify the day, merely for the continuation of existence or duration in abstract, then it will perhaps gravel even a philosopher to comprehend it. This is inculcated because I imagine it may be of moment towards clearing several important questions, and preventing some very dangerous errors concerning the nature of the soul. I grant indeed that it is possible for us to think a body which we see change its distance from some other to be moved, though it have no force applied to it (in which sense there may be apparent motion), but then it is because the force causing the change of distance is imagined by us to be applied or impressed on that body thought to move; which indeed shews we are capable of mistaking a thing to be in motion which is not, and that is all.
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