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lefsly feparable parts, (that is, of parts 

 which are as really diftinifl beings, not- 

 tvithflanding their contiguity, as if they 

 iiad been at the greateft diflance one from 

 another), is made up alfo of intlumerable 

 ^lonfcioufneires and infinite confufion ? 

 And farther, if every part of matter be felf- 

 confcious, it would be a contradidion to 

 fuppofe that any iyftem conld be fo : 

 't'he refulting fenfation or confcioufnefs at 

 i^fl being but one diflind; fenfation or 

 confcioufnefs, (as is that of a man), the 

 fenfation or confcioufnefs of every 

 one of the conftituent particles would 

 be the individual fenfation or con- 

 fcioufnefs of all and each of the red. In 

 the next place, the faculty of thinking 

 cannot arife from the fize, figure, texture^ 

 or motion of body ; nor can be deflroyed 

 by any alteration of thefe qualities: Be- 

 caufe bodies, by any change of thefe, on- 

 ly become greater or lefs, round or fquare, 

 rare or denfe, tranflated frorn one place to 

 another j with this or that new diredion, 

 or velocity ; or the like. All which ide- 

 as are quite different from that of think- 



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