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grant either that the atoms are motive, or 

 that they are impelled to move. So also in 

 reasoning with respect to sensation, if the 

 atoms be not sentient, it is impossible 

 to suppose that sensation can result from 

 the arrangement or motion of insensible 

 atoms. 



If to think and act in this manner be 

 considered as an error, I must be shown 

 that it is one, before I can alter either 

 my opinions or conduct. Till then, I 

 shall glory in entertaining the same 

 opinions as Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, 

 and a host of others whom I need not 

 mention, have done. It will be my boast 

 and future endeavour to show by Physi- 

 ological arguments, that in this instance 

 also, what has been perceived by the pene- 

 trating eye of intellect, on a distant and 

 general observation, becomes more and 

 more apparent on a close and accurate 

 examination of the subject. I say, it 

 will be my boast, because I know that 

 the opinions I allude to are productive of 

 nothing but good to humanity, individually 



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