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phically, becaufe it is, by the nature of things, impofTible that Bodies 

 at a diftance fhould ad upon one another. There muft, therefore, 

 be another agent in the cafe, namely, Mind ; and if it were true, 

 what Dr Prieftley fays, that Bodies never touch one Another, the 

 confequence only would be, that Body never moves Body, and that 

 Mind is not only the original caufe, but the dired and immediate 

 caufe, of all motion in the univerfe. 



And fo much at prefent for the qualities of Body. 



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