inoEHvtty of Matt er, &c. 217

power so eminently laid out, in so little room.

I {hall shew in another place, that the facultycalled instinct, is most remarkable in the low-est, most contemptible creatures ; and thatthis injlinSi is nothing but the immediate direc-tion and guidance of the Divine Wisdom, tosupply the power of reason, which these crea-tures want. And fince in the question aboutthe immortality of the foul, the brute-foul is,on all occasions, brought in on a parity withthe human, I {hall there endeavour to assignthe difference between the rational and brute-nature; since it already appears not to be adifference of substances, but of powers belong-ing to one and the same kin4 of substance.

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