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own tliat the Dodor's fyftem of pure materialifm is more confiftent 

 with itfelf than their fyflem. 



Upon the notion of the Deity being extended over infinite fpaecj 

 Dr Clarke has raifed another notion, which appears to me alfo very 

 ftrange, that infinite Space is an attribute of the Divinity. Iffo, it 

 is a part of the Divine Nature, that was utterly unknown to all the 

 philofophers and theologians of antiquity : But, concerning Space> 

 I am to inquire fuxjther in the next chapter. 



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