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interest^ in which Dr. Clarke *, Mr. Norris, and 

 otliers, wrote against Dodwell, and in M'hich the 

 subject received nuich ehicidation. After Dr. 

 Clarke, Andrew Baxter, a distinguished writer of 

 North Britain, undertook, in a large work, to 

 estabHsh the immateriality of the soul. This work 

 is generally considered as among the most able 

 and satisfactory ever written in defence of the 

 truth which it supports f . 



This controversy respecting the immateriality of 

 the soul was revived, many years afterwards, by 

 Dr. Price J and Dr. Priestley; whose correspond- 



* Samuel Clarke, D.D., was born at Norwich, in the year 

 1675. He was educated at the university of Cambridge; and 

 received orders in the church of England about the year I698. 

 In 1706 he published his letter to Dodwell, on the immorta- 

 lity of the soul^ a philosophical and learned discourse. In 

 1715 he maintained a controversy with Leibnitz, which has 

 been much celebrated j and in 1717 he published ' remarks 

 upon CoUins's Philosophical Inquiry concerning Human Liberty, 

 His other works are numerous, and indicate great acuteness, 

 learning, and critical skill. He died in 1729. Dr. Clarke is cer- 

 tainly entitled to a place among the greatest men of the eighteenth 

 century. 



t There were, no doubt, many writers on this subject, on the 

 continent of Europe, equally worthy of notice with those above- 

 mentioned; but the author has too little acquaintance with their 

 character and merits to attempt any account of them in this place. 



I Richard Price, D. D., was bcrn in Wales, about the year 

 172.1. He was an eminent dissenting minister, no less distin- 

 guished for the amiableness of his private character than fot his 

 great talents, and hiii laudable exertions in the cause of human 

 happiness. He published his llcvieiv of the prindpal Questions and 

 Dlt/iailtic.s in Murals, ike, in 1758; his Observations on Reversion' 

 art/ Payments, &:c., in 1771 ; and A free Discussion of the DoC" 

 irincs of Materialism and P/iilosophical Keeessitj/, uith Dr. Priest- 

 ley, in 1778. These arc his most celebrated works. He died in 



