(2:20) But, it will be urged, it is impossible that solely from the laws
of nature considered as extended substance, we should be able to deduce
the causes of buildings, pictures, and things of that kind, which are
produced only by, human art; nor would the human body, unless it were
determined and led by the mind, be capable of building a single temple.
(21) However, I have just pointed out that the objectors cannot fix the
limits of the body's power, or say, what can be concluded from a
consideration of its sole nature, whereas they, have experience of many
things being accomplished solely by the laws of nature, which they would
never have believed possible except under the direction of mind: such
are the actions performed by, somnambulists while asleep, and wondered
at by their performers when awake. (2:22) I would further call attention
to the mechanism of the human body, which far surpasses in complexity,
all that has been put together by, human art, not to repeat what I have
already, shown, namely, that from nature, under whatever attribute she
be considered, infinite results follow. (23) As for the second
objection, I submit that the world would be much happier, if men were
as fully, able to keep silence as they, are to speak. (24) Experience
abundantly shows that men can govern anything more easily than their
tongues, and restrain anything more easily than their appetites; whence
it comes about that many believe, that we are only, free in respect to
objects which we moderately desire, because our desire for such can
easily be controlled by the thought of something else frequently
remembered, but that we are by no means free in respect to what we
seek with violent emotion, for our desire cannot then be allayed with
the remembrance of anything else.
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