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Title:  A free enquiry into the vulgarly receiv'd notion of nature made in an essay address'd to a friend / by R.B., Fellow of the Royal Society.
Author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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is remov'd, will return to its first Dimensions: And the Blade of a Sword being bent by being thrust against the Floor; as soon as the force ceases, restores itself, by its innate power, to its former straight∣ness: And Water, being made Hot by the fire, when 'tis removed thence, hastens to recover its former Coldness. But though I take this Argument to have much more weight in it, than the foregoing; because it seems to be grounded upon such real Phae∣nomena of Nature, as those newly recited, yet I do not look upon it as Cogent. In Answer to it therefore, I shall represent, that it appears by the In∣stances lately mention'd, that the Proposers of the Argument ground it on the affections of Inanimate Bodies. Now, an Inanimate Por∣tion of Matter being confessedly de∣void of Knowledge and Sense, I see no Reason, why we should not think it uncapable of being concern'd to be 0