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ing then young, and not void of the conceit 

 that frequently attends thofe of my age, I 

 hoped to be capable of making fome fuper- 

 ftru£ture on Mr. Cook's notions, that might 

 ftand i but all to no purpofe. The fliining 

 fallacy ftrait as a meteor difappearing. The 

 mifcarriages of thefe two latter very inge- 

 nious adventurers herein, with my felf, thro* 

 them, and I doubt not, I might fay of a 

 hundred more, fufficiently fhew what ab- 

 horrence nature had to every bold invader of 

 her dominions of that kind ; and that fhe 

 would as it were revenge fuch infults, and 

 elude the defired effeds of fuch violence. 

 My continued obfervance of which pro- 

 ducing the refledlion, that tho' vegetating 

 matter has not a felf determining power as 

 man, who is endued with free agency ; yet 

 that in fome nice cafes in the Honourable 

 Mr. Boyle's language, it is adiaphorous, and 

 impafiive to the ends of fuch fecondary 

 motion, which upon a vain prefumption of 

 our fuperior powers we attempt to give it. 

 And that from fome prior — latent — inhe- 

 rent — motion and energy (of what I may call 

 here) it's own. 



I SHOULD 



