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x of material substances. Whensoever therefore man sees, hears, tastes, smells, and feels, he has a full demonstration that some higher principle is at work within him, acting as an instrumental cause, and thus producing effects, which cannot otherwise be explained or accounted for. If too he will have the candour and the courage to pursue the enquiry, he will presently discover, that this instrumental cause cannot produce an effect separate from its primary or Divine cause; and that consequently every sensation and operation, excited either in the soul or body of man, is from a superior cause, viz. from the, in case the sensation and operation be in agreement with the laws of Divine order; but from the infernal source of all death, if opposed to those laws.