248 The soul necessarily livings

SECT. IV.

That the soul aster death is not in afate of insenfibility , torpor , ordeadness ; but must still remain anaElive living beings when separatedfrom the body. The controvetfy be-tween Mr. Locke, and his adver-saries confidered , whether the foulthinks always , &c.

W E shall still see farther into the natureof the human soul, and be the bet-ter able to deal with sceptical objections; ifwe next examine, whether it is necessarilyactive and perceptive, so that activity and per-ceptivity are inseparable from it. This hathbeen asserted above, at N° 7. of the last sec-tion, where the argument in part dependson the proof of it: and though it is but thejust consequence of what is already said; yetiince we oftener reflect upon the seemingstate of inactivity and imperceptivity, whichthe soul is successively thrown into, whilejoined to the body, and rather draw our

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