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therefore equal, or of the fame kind of im-material Beings i which the objection tacitlysupposes; or that there are the fame reasonswhy the fouls of brutes should subsist afterthey are separated from their material systems,as that the human foul should. The one’sbeing rational, and the other irrational, i scertainly a specific difference, which arguesa difference of design in the Author of thesetwo kinds of immaterial Beings ; unless vf Qwould fay that a Being infinitely wife madespecifically different Beings, and not for dis"ferent purposes. The same reasons do notconclude a foul immortal, which concludeit immaterial; and, though the immaterialityof it is not against its immortality, but ra-ther a strong symptom of it; yet withoutbetter reasons, the conclusion would be pre"carious, and ill supported. We are to con'dude nothing certain about* the immortalityof the souls of brutes, because we have no £evident reasons to support such a conclusion >and we are to conclude something certainbout the immortality of the human soul, h e 'cause we have evident reasons to justify °sso doing. This is surely a right method °philosophising. If some great Philosophy