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found fyftem of the fceptical philofophy *, 
but hath not yet been adopted by any of the 
a focieties for improvement of natural know- 
Os 
ledge. Such fublime conceptions are far above 
the reach of an ordinary genius; and could 
_ not have entered into the head of the greateft 
phyfiologift on earth. The man who believes 
that a perception may fubfift without a perci- 
pient mind or a perceiver, may well compre- 
hend, that an action may be performed with- 
out any agent, or a thing produced without 
any caufe of the production. And the au- 
thor of this new and wonderful doétrine in- 
forms the world, that, when he looked into 
his own mind, he could difcover nothing but 
a feries of fleeting perceptions; and that from 
thence he concluded, that he himfelf was 
nothing but a bundle of fuch perceptions. 
Mr Baxter, in his Inquiry into the nature 
of the Human foul, and likewife in his Ma- 
tho, endeavours to prove, that gravity cannot 
be 
* Treatife on Human Nature, 3. vols. oftavo. This is the 
_ fyftem at large, a work fuited only to the comprehenfion of 
_ Adepts. An excellent compend or fummary whereof, for the 
benefit of vulgar capacities, we of this nation: enjoy in the 
y Philofiphical Effays, and the Effays Moral and Political. 
And to thefe may be added, as a farther help, that ufeful 
commentary, the E/fays on Morality and natural Religion. 
