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thing that is folid and extended is body, I think I may conclude, that 

 what exifts without us, and produces our fenfations, is body. And, 

 though it be fleeting and tranfitory, and in a conftant flux like a ri- 

 ver, yet I think I have fhown, that intellect can apprehend fome- 

 thing of it as it paflTes, and make it a permanent obje<a of art and 

 fcience. 



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