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by any of the focieties for improvement 

 of natural knowledge. Such fublime con- 

 ceptions are far above the reach of an or- 

 dinary genius ; and could not have enter- 

 ed into the head of the greateft phyliolo- 

 giil on earth. The man who believes thaE 

 a perception may fubiifl without a perci- 

 pient mind or a perceiver, may well com- 

 prehend, that an adion may be performed 

 without any agent, or a thing produced 

 without any caufeof the produdlion. And 

 the author of this new and wonderful 

 dodlrine informs the world, that, when he 

 looked into his own mind, he could dif- 

 cover nothing but a feries of fleeting per- 

 ceptions ; and that from thence he con- 

 cluded, that he himfcif was nothing but a 

 bundle of fuch perceptions. 

 • Mr Baxter, in his Inquiry into the 7ia- 

 ture of the Human foul, and likewife in his 

 MathOi endeavours to prove, that gravity 

 cannot be a property inherent in naatter j 



from 



mary whereof, for the benefit of vulgar capacities,' we 

 of this nation enjoy in the Philofophical E/Tays, and the 

 EfTays Moral and Politica". 



