An appendix to the first part of the Enquiry into the nature of the human soul; wherein the principles laid down there are cleared from some objections - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1750 Excerpt: ...of nature, more than rude matter. Of mechanism in the performance of art, in the bodies of animals, in vegetables, in the works of insesls. That mechanism in these cannot become a power, either to produce or increase motion. That in all cafes it serves to supply a necessity, but never to act as a cause. That mechanical principles ere only necessary consequences of the inactivity of matter, and cannot regulate power. That there is no mechanism in the other parts of nature. Of the folly of supposing the Deity to subordinate his, own power to act for himself; or of supposing him to convey the impressions of his power from place to place, by the help of-dead matter, &c. Notwithstanding we have been often told by this author, in places cited above, that we are frequently meeting with powers that seem to surpass mere mechanism, or the effects of matter and motion; yet afterward he asserts, that mechanism acts as a second cause, in carrying on the works of nature. It is said, " tho' he the Deity is the source "of all efficacy, yet we find that place is left for second causes to act in subordi. nation to him; and mechanism has its "share in carrying on the great scheme of "nature, The establishing the equality "of action and reaction, even in those powers that seem to surpass mechanism,. and to be more immediately derived from "him, seems to be an indication, that those "powers, while they derive their efficacy "from him, are however in a certain det gree, circumscribed and regulated in their t operations, by mechanical principles; "and tha,t they are not to be considered as "mere immediate volitions of his (as they "are often 'represented) but rather as in. "struments made by him, to perform the "...

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