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'' supposed . infiiute,'"' wliicli ' lip ' llhihks ' ho one' M'itl ' dffiViii, 

 " he asks, Avliether, iF Grod'pldceid a'niau M tlie extre- 

 " iTiity of comoreal beings,' he coiild not stretch his hand 

 " bej'ond his body? If he could, then lie would' ptit' his 

 " arm where, there, was before space without body." And, 

 chap. xvii. ^. 4. he add§, " so far as body reaches, so far 

 " no bn^ can doubt of extension; and, when Sve are coitie 

 " to the utmost extrcinit}'^ of bodyi what is thfei^e'tliat can 

 " satisfy the miiid, that it is' itt the end- of '^p^c^e, when 

 " it perceives it is hot?" and finally coiVcludes, " that 

 " space js infinite^" 'And, §. 20, he denies, that the exist- 

 ence of matter is.. any way necessary to. the existence of 



In 1713, Doctor Berkeley first published his immortal 

 work, on the Principles of Human Knowledge, in the 

 cxvi §. of which he asserts, that pure space is nothing 

 more than the possibility of motion, without the least re- 

 sistance; and that, if all bodies were annihilated, there 

 could be no motion, and, coriseqiientl}', no spjice. And' 

 thus, he says, (§. pxvii.) " we free ourselves from that dan- 

 " gerous dilemma, to which several imagined themselves 

 " reduced, to wit, of thinking that real space is God; or 

 " else, that there is something besides God, eternal, un- 

 " created, infinite, indivisible, immutable; both which may 

 " justly be thought pernicious and absurd notions." This 

 opinion was afterwards adopted by Dr. Doddridge, in his 



, . Lectures. 



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