Excerpt from Materialism Philosophically Examined, or the Immateriality of the Soul Asserted and Proved, on Philosophical Principles in Answer to Dr. Priestley's Disquisitions on Matter and Spirit On the contrary it is maintained in the following papers, that the doctrine Of the jolzb'ity, impenetraaility, and oi: inertia Of matter is well founded, and that thefe are the only properties eflntial to its being or exif'tence. It is alfo farther proved, that allowing the powers of attraction and re pulfion to be efiential to the very being of matter, it would, notwithf'tanding, be ut terly incapable of producing ferfation, re fleflion, andyudgment It being juft as im pofiible for attrafiion andrepafion, however modified, to produce thefe'powers, as it is for a triangle or a fquare to become a circle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.