 ... mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 3831760Full view - About this book
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