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104 to no more than this; I am abolutely ignorant what Matter is; I gues, but imperfectly, ome Properties of it; now, I abolutely cannot tell whether thee Properties may be joyn'd to Thought. As I therefore know nothing, I maintain poitively that Matter cannot think. In this Manner do the Schools reaon.

Mr. Locke addres'd thee Gentlemen in the candid, incere Manner following. At leat confes your elves to be as ignorant as I. Neither your Imaginations nor mine are able to comprehend in what manner a Body is uceptible of Ideas; and do you conceive better in what manner a Subtance, of what kind oever, is uceptible of them? As you cannot comprehend either Matter or Spirit, why will you preume to aert any thing?

The upertitious Man comes afterwards, and declares, that all thoe mut be burnt for the Good of their Souls, who o much as upect that 'tis poible for the Body to think without any foreign Aitance. But what would thee People ay hould they themelves be prov'd irreligious? And indeed, what Man