BOOK I PART IV
SECTIONV. OF THEIMMATERIALITY OF THE
SOUL
Having found such contradictions and diffi-
culties in every system concerning external ob-
jects, and in the idea of matter, which we fancy
so clear and determinate, We shall naturally ex-
pect still greater difficulties and contradictions
in every hypothesis concerning our internal
perceptions, and the nature of the mind, which
we are apt to imagine so much more obscure,
and uncertain. But in this we should deceive
ourselves. The intellectual world, though in-
volved in infinite obscurities, is not perplexed
with any such contradictions, as those we have
discovered in the natural. What is known con-
cerning it, agrees with itself; and what is un-
known, we must be contented to leave so.
It is true, would we hearken to certain