$2 METAPHYSICS. 



Primary Qualities. 



The instances mentioned by Locke of primary 

 qualities, are solidity, extension, figure, motion or 

 rest, and number. 



Monades. 



If there be no extended parts in nature, there can 

 be no such thing as body, for the repetition of that 

 which is itself unextended, can never produce any 

 thing extended. 



Death. 



Arcesilaus said Death, of all estimated evils, is 

 the only one whose presence never incommoded any 

 body, and which only causes concern during its ab- 

 sence. 



Death. 



It is impossible that any thing so natural, so ne- 

 cessary, or so universal as death, should ever have 

 been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.* 



Death. 



When the vital principle deserts the body it had 

 constructed, and surrenders it to the laws of inor- 

 ganic matter, the last state is termed death. 



Evil Spirits. 



With more philosophy it might be supposed that 

 evil cannot exist but in matter, and that an evil spirit 

 is a contradiction in terms. 



Magicians. 



Nothing is so ridiculous as to condemn a true ma- 

 gician to be burned, for it must be presumed that he 



* A commentator on this says " it is generally admitted that 

 no man can live without sin." 



