PHYSICAL ann LITERARY. 107 
When we fee a body continuing to move 
with the felf-fame velocity which is received 
from the hand, is it not more natural to fay, 
that it does fo for want of a ‘power or activity 
to ftopt itfelf,. 4 oF to deftroy this motion, 
than to agit the body to be no way de- 
termined by the impulfe, but to be carried 
on with an equal force by a power of its own 
continually exerted after the impulfe. Such 
obfequious complaifance of the ftone, in im!- 
tating fo exactly the motion of the hand, 
muft appear extremely curious; efpecially 
if we confider what a violent oppofition it is 
‘  fuppofed to have made, before it. yielded to 
the motion at firft. It brings to remem- 
brance the man in the parable, who faid, ke 
4a would not go, but. went: ot perhaps it may be 
4 likened to a young fellow learning to ‘dance, 
: who bends his limbs but aukwardly at firft 
 Yetting out, till being led about for a while 
in the matter’s hand, he can afterwards con- 
tinue the ftep of himfelf. If, in the collifion 
of bodies, the one body could thus adapt and 
conform itfelf in all cafes to the motion of 
. the other; it {cems to be the higheft in- 
* juftice to refufe it the power of fenfation and 
- confcioufnels, 
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