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		I am a body and I think thats all I know of the matter Shall I ascribe to an unknown cause what I can so easily impute to the only second cause I am acquainted with Here all the school philosophers interrupt me with their arguments and declare that there is only extension and solidity in bodies and that there they can have nothing but motion and figure Now motion figure extension and solidity cannot form a thought and consequently the soul cannot be matter All this so often repeated mighty series of reasoning amounts to no more than this I am absolutely ignorant what matter is I guess but imperfectly some properties of it now I absolutely cannot tell whether these properties may be joined to thought As I therefore know nothing I maintain positively that matter cannot think In this manner do the schools reason
		Mr Locke addressed these gentlemen in the candid sincere manner follog At least confess yourselves to be as ignorant as I Neither your imaginations nor mine are able to comprehend in what manner a body is susceptible of ideas and do you conceive better in what manner a substance of what kind soever is susceptible of them As you cannot comprehend either matter or spirit why will you presume to assert anything The superstitious man comes afterwards and declares that all those must be burnt for the good of their souls who so much as suspect that it is possible for the body to think without any foreign assistance But what would these people say should they themselves be proved irreligious And indeed what man can presume to assert without being guilty at the same time of the greatest impiety that it is impossible for the Creator to form matter with thought and sensation Consider only I beg you what a dilemma you bring yourselves into you who confine in this manner the power of the Creator Beasts have the same organs the same sensations the same perceptions as we they have memory and combine certain ideas In case it was not in the power of God to animate matter and inform it with sensation the consequence would be either that beasts are mere machines or that they have a spiritual soul Methinks it is clearly evident that beasts cannot be mere machines which I prove thus God has given to them the very same organs of sensation as to us if therefore they have no sensation God has created a useless thing now according to your own confession God does nothing in vain He therefore did not create so many organs of sensation merely for them to be uninformed with this faculty consequently beasts are not mere machines Beasts according to your assertion cannot be animated with a spiritual soul you will therefore in spite of yourself be reduced to this only assertion viz that God
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