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ENQUIRY

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Nature of the Human Soul.

SECT. I.

That a resistance to any change of itspresent state is essential to matt er ,and inconfistent with any aEUve pow-er in it.

B Y the soul we understand that whichis active and percipient in us, be itwhat it will (a)-, its activity appearsin moving the body, and in the commandit hath over its own thoughts; its percepti-vity, in being sensible os the action of mat-

(a) These are the uncontested properties of the foul,whatever be the substance of it; whether material, orimmaterial: and this description shall be always kept inview throughout these papers.

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