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wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

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lo Tie Records m Arlft^tle <strong>and</strong> Plato Boo k I.<strong>the</strong>y: <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>n by parity <strong>of</strong> reafon <strong>the</strong>y extended <strong>the</strong> bufincfs fur<strong>the</strong>r to <strong>the</strong>otiier fenfibles. But th<strong>is</strong> opinion Arifiotle condemns in <strong>the</strong>fe words ', Oi •nraj-TEiiv ©ijcricAo'j'Oi TKTO i y.c.>.u; iXsy-ov, X-ikov \iTi )i^i)i oic^f.oi !iT£ y-ixccii ai£ii oij/faf, in},jjy-ov aviu ytuiTiai * Tbe former phyjiologen were genercUy out' in th<strong>is</strong>, in that<strong>the</strong>y thought <strong>the</strong>re 'u:as no black or '•j;hite ii'ithout <strong>the</strong> fight ^ nor no hitter or fveetwithout <strong>the</strong> tafle. There are o<strong>the</strong>r paffages in Arijiotle concerning th<strong>is</strong> phi-J<strong>of</strong>ophy, which I think fuperfluous to infert here ; <strong>and</strong> I fh<strong>all</strong> have occafion tocite fome <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m afterward for o<strong>the</strong>r purp<strong>of</strong>es.VII. But in <strong>the</strong> next place it will not be amifs to lliew, that Plato alfohathleft a very full record <strong>of</strong> th<strong>is</strong> mechanical or atomical phyfiology (that hathhardly been yet taken notice <strong>of</strong>) which notwithft<strong>and</strong><strong>is</strong>g he doth not impureci<strong>the</strong>r to Democritus (wh<strong>of</strong>e name Laertius ^ thinks he purp<strong>of</strong>ely declined tomention throughout <strong>all</strong> h<strong>is</strong> writings) or to Leucippus, but to Protagoras.Wherefore in h<strong>is</strong> Thextetus, having firft declared in general, ' that <strong>the</strong> Protagoreanphil<strong>of</strong>ophy made <strong>all</strong> things to confift <strong>of</strong> a commixture <strong>of</strong> parts (orstums) <strong>and</strong> local motion, he reprefents it, in particular concerning colours,after th<strong>is</strong> manner*; urroXcc^i romv ijacn xzra ra oiJ-'J-oclx ZTpuiTOV, o cJj jccAsTf p^aa^aaAfUJto'u ttJi £iva» ccvTO sTfcoa Ti E^u Tuu (ro:v 0[j.ij.cirwVj [/,Y,d iv rot; o jj.^cx.(Tiy «AAc4 y.iAocv ri y^hivysDi x^ OTi»v«AAo yaa^oi. i^ t>)? ra'foo'bOArj; tuv oy,f/.aTuv WfOf t'/iv zrpo(7ny.ii(Txv (pocxv ^xviTtci'yiyiVjYiiji.ivov, jcj J'e 'ixaci-ov ttvxi (pa/^tv ^^afxcc, kts to ra'focrSaAAov ire to zrcoa--C/xX'AOfjL£vov aAAa /jlctoc^-j rt ixdra 'iSioy yeyovog- Firfl, as to that which belongs to<strong>the</strong>fight., you mufl conceive that which <strong>is</strong> c<strong>all</strong>ed a white or a black colour not tobe any thing ahfolutely exifling ei<strong>the</strong>r without your eyes or within your eyes ; butblack <strong>and</strong> white^ <strong>and</strong> every o<strong>the</strong>r colour, <strong>is</strong> caufed by different motions made upon<strong>the</strong> eyefrom objects differently modified : fo that it <strong>is</strong> nothing ei<strong>the</strong>r in <strong>the</strong> agentnor <strong>the</strong> patient abfolutely, but fomething which ar ifes from between <strong>the</strong>m both.Where it follows immediately, >i ou S\ir>(v^[

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