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They who assert that figure, motion, and the rest of the primary or original qualities do exist without the mind in unthinking substances, do at the same time acknowledge that colours, sounds, heat cold, and suchlike secondary qualities, do not- which they tell us are sensations existing in the mind alone, that depend on and are occasioned by the Sarah Michelle Gellar panties different size, texture, and motion of the minute particles of matter.. Fain would we suppose Him at a great distance off, and substitute some blind unthinking deputy in His stead, though (if we may believe Sarah Michelle Gellar upskirt Saint Paul) "He be not far from every one of us.". But, to come nigher the difficulty, it must be observed that though the fabrication of all those parts and organs be not absolutely necessary to the producing any effect, yet it is necessary to the producing of things in a constant regular way according to Sarah Michelle Gellar nue the laws of nature.. 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Whereas it is evident the fixed stars have no such tendency towards each other; and, so far is that gravitation from being essential to bodies that in some instances a quite contrary principle seems to shew itself; as in the perpendicular growth of plants, and the elasticity Sarah Michelle Gellar nude free of the air.. But, if we attentively consider the constant regularity, order, and concatenation of natural things, the surprising magnificence, beauty, and perfection of the larger, and the exquisite contrivance of the smaller parts of creation, together with the exact harmony and correspondence of the whole, but above all the never-enough-admired laws of pain and pleasure, and the instincts Sarah Michelle Gellar sexy picture or natural inclinations, appetites, and passions of animals; I say if we consider all these things, and at the same time attend to the meaning and import of the attributes One, Eternal, Infinitely Wise, Good, and Perfect, we shall clearly perceive that they belong to the aforesaid Spirit, "who works all in all," and "by whom all things consist.". In like manner, we know and have a notion of relations between things or ideas- which relations are distinct from the ideas or things related, inasmuch as the latter may be perceived by us Sarah Michelle Gellar hot without our perceiving the former.. And in this sense Sarah Michelle Gellar fake the sun that I see by day is the real sun, and that which I imagine by night is the idea of the former.. All which, I Sarah Michelle Gellar porn doubt not, may be cleared, and truth appear plain, uniform, and consistent, could but philosophers be prevailed on to retire into themselves, and attentively consider their own meaning.. But, to the end this may not suffer, I make it my request that the reader suspend his judgment till he has once at least read the whole through with that SarahMichelleGellarfa3 degree of attention and thought which the subject-matter shall seem to deserve.. 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Thus, for instance, it cannot be denied that God, or the Intelligence that sustains and rules the ordinary course of things, might if He were minded to produce a miracle, cause all the motions on the Sarah Michelle Gellar poster dial-plate of a watch, though nobody had ever made the movements and put them in it: but yet, if He will act agreeably to the rules of mechanism, by Him for wise ends established and maintained in the creation, it is necessary that those actions of the watchmaker, whereby he makes the movements and rightly adjusts them, precede the production of the aforesaid motions; as also that any disorder in them be attended with the perception of some corresponding disorder in the movements, which being once corrected all is right again.. So that, for aught Sarah Michelle Gellar topless we know, all we see, hear, and feel may be only phantom and vain chimera, and not at all agree with the real things existing in rerum natura.. That there are a great variety of spirits Sarah Michelle Gellar panties of different orders and capacities, whose faculties both in number and extent are far exceeding those the Author of my being has bestowed on me, I see no reason to deny.. For, when we nicely reflect upon them, we shall find that general ideas are fictions and contrivances of the mind, that carry difficulty with them, Sarah Michelle Gellar upskirt and do not so easily offer themselves as we are apt to imagine.. nor yet naked: hair, feathers, scales, and nakedness being the distinguishing properties Sarah Michelle Gellar nue of particular animals, and for that reason left out of the abstract idea.. But no sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow the light of a superior principle, Sarah Michelle Gellar nude free to reason, meditate, and reflect on the nature of things, but a thousand scruples spring up in our minds concerning those things which before we seemed fully to comprehend.. For, it is evident we observe no foot-steps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the faculty of abstracting, Sarah Michelle Gellar sexy picture or making general ideas, since they have no use of words or any other general signs.". Secondly, the place being moved, that which is placed therein is also moved; so that a body moving in a place which is in motion doth participate Sarah Michelle Gellar hot the motion of its place.. But the objects perceived by sense are allowed to be nothing but combinations of those qualities, and consequently cannot subsist Sarah Michelle Gellar fake by themselves.. On the contrary, I think it were highly to be wished that men of great abilities and obstinate application would draw off their thoughts from those amusements, and employ them in the study of such things Sarah Michelle Gellar porn as lie nearer the concerns of life, or have a more direct influence on the manners.. And I do not think that either what philosophers call Matter, or SarahMichelleGellarfa3 the existence of objects without the mind, is anywhere mentioned in Scripture..