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always depend. This, I think, I have fully shewn in my
said Essay; and the Author will, I believe, be of my opinion, if he
will but from those where he now seems to
, and deign to upon the , but Surface
of .
Now, with Regard to the Origin of that Idea we call
, the Author will see by reading my Essay Chap. 4th and
11th, that we never should, nor ever could have formed an Idea of
or Motion, if we had not perceived in
ourselves a Motion ; and that with Regard to
the Motion of any Object, it is not from any Connexion>, or between Cause and Effect, that we
determine the Motion to be ; because we see
many Motions or Effects, the Cause of which we neither see nor can
perceive: It is from and only, we this Case> determine; and for this very Reason, we are often liable
to be deceived in our Judgments about the or
of Motions or Effects.
As for the Author's Proof from Experience, that there is a
between our Actions of one Side, and our Motives,
Tempers, or Circumstances of the other, I shall grant that the
latter have a very great Influence upon the former; and it is upon
this, that , or what he calls ,
depends: But every Man must be convinced from what he feels within
himself, that this Influence is not and ; and

is a much stronger Proof than any we can have from
our of external Objects, because we cannot know their
Tempers and Circumstances, and much less the Motives they are
governed by, so well as we do our own.
This, I believe, will be sufficient for preventing my Author's
from having nay Effect upon the Opinions
or Morals of Mankind; and, indeed, I should have taken no Notice of
what he has wrote, if I had not thought his Book, in several Parts,
so very abstruse and perplex'd, that, I am convinced, no Man can
comprehend what he means; and as one of the greatest Wits of this
Age has justly observed, this may impose upon weak Readers, and make
them imagine, there is a great Deal of in it,
because they .
But as the same Author, in the 2d Part of his first Book sets
himself up in Opposition to the now General, and, I think, Self-
evident Opinion, That is , I must
have a Word with him upon that Subject, before I leave him. His very
first Argument is founded upon a : He affirms, that
it is a Contradiction to suppose, that nay Part of
contains an Number of . This is so far from being
a Contradiction, that it is certainly true, as every Man who
understands any Thing of the Nature of , or even of
itself, must acknowledge; for tho' a certain be
necessary, for an Division of any Thing that be necessary,
for an Division of any Thing that can be divided, or for