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capable of artlessly doing what is ir4 required, as if watches 

 were to indicate the time of day by a certain horodeictic 

 faculty without needing wheels, or as if mills were to 

 crush the grain by a tractive faculty without needing 

 anything resembling millstones 195 . As to the difficulty 

 several peoples have had in conceiving an immaterial 

 substance, it will readily pass away (at any rate in great 

 part), if it be no longer maintained that there are sub- 

 stances separated from matter, as in fact I do not believe 

 that there are ever naturally 196 any such substances 

 among created things. 



Antibarbarus Physicus, &c. (G. vii. 337 N . See also Vaughan's Hours 

 with the Mystics, bk. viii. chs. 4 and 5, and the Dedication of Pope's 

 Rape of the Lock, where the * nymphs,' &c. are attributed to the 

 Rosicrucians. Milton speaks of 



'Those demons that are found 

 In fire, air, flood or under ground.' 



11 Penseroso, 1. 93. 



194 E. reads 'all that is required.' 



195 See Introduction, Part iv. pp. 156 sqq. 



156 i. e. other than miraculously. Cf. Monadology, 72. 



