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This perhaps may awaken another to demand of me how? to which I as readily answer, just how my reader pleases, provided it be somehow. As for instance, we usually say, an accident exists in, or in dependence on, its proper subject; and that its very essence, or reality of its existence, is so to exist. Will this pass for an explication of my assertion? if so, I am content to stand by it, in this sense of the words. Again, we usually say, (and fancy too we know what we mean in saying,) that a body exists in, and also in dependance on, its proper place, so as to exist necessarily in some place or other. Will this description of dependance please my inquisitive reader? If so, I am content to join issue with him, and contend that all matter exists in, or as much dependantly on, mind, thought, or perception, to the full, as any body exists in place. Nay, I hold the description to be so just and apposite, as if a man should say, a thing is like itself: for I suppose I need not tell my reader, that when I affirm that all matter exists in mind, after the same manner as body exists in place, I mean the very same as if I had said, that mind itself is the place of body, and so its place, as that it is not capable of existing in any other place, or in place after any other manner. Again, lastly, it is a common saying, that an object of perception exists in, or in dependance on, its respective faculty. And of these objects, there are many who will reckon with me, light, sounds, colours, and even some material