340 APPENDIX. Chap. III. 



former are called by the Greek philofophers ronroc or inteUigibles^ 

 the other cLit^^itnix gx fenfibhs. 



But this ciiftlndion, I know, will need to be farther explain- 

 ed to fuch of my readers as are not fcholars, or have not learned at 

 leaft the elements of antient philofophy ; and, in doing fo, I will 

 begin with the laft order of things I mentioned, thefe being beH: 

 known to us, namely, the things that are in a conftant ftate of change 

 and variation, fuch, indeed, as cannot, with any propriety, be called 

 a ftate at all, any more than that Motion in which they continually 

 are ; for, that there is no State of Motion^ I think, I have very 

 clearly proved elfewhere *. 



That the things upon this earth are in that ftate, (if we will 

 pleafe to call it fo), and that therefore they are in a conftant flow, 

 like a river, to which Heraclitus compared them ; — and that, 

 as Lucretms informs us +, the death or diftblution of one thing is 

 the generation or prefervation of another, fo that there is on the 

 earth a conftant change of the forms of things, is a truth, that 

 our modern philofophers, who have experimented fo much, and 

 obferved fo attentively the operations of Nature, muft be fully 

 convinced of. Now, thefe things, thus pafling away, and floating, 

 as it were, betwixt exiftence and non-exiftence^ are the objeds, 

 and the only objedls, which Senfe can apprehend : And, indeed, 

 if they were not in conftant motion, they could not even be fo 

 apprehended ; for it is only by the action of Bodies upon our or- 

 gans of Senfe that we have any fenfation of any thing. 



But, is there nothing in the univerfe except what is thus change- 

 able and unftable ? And I fay there is. And, in ihcfirji place, 



there is the Divinity, whom every theift v/ill admit to be ivithout 



change^ 



"" Vol. i. p. 530. Vol. ii. p. 337. 358. 



f Lib. i. V. 263. et fequens. — Ariftotle fays the fame thing in the beginning of 

 kis book, De Ortii et Interitu. 



