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Human soul in an after-state, and that in anyassignable proportion. And lastly, the quan-tity of matter in our bodies may, and in allprobability will, be much less then ; ofwhich immediately. Thus it is not onlynot impossible for infinite power, but not^conceivable to us, that the inactivity oflatter, that quality of it that gives us mostuneasiness in our present union, and is mostUnpromising in any union, should be as easyto us, as if we were not united to an. in-active substance at all.

XIII. The next disadvantage we labourunder, from the present constitution of ourbodies is, that their systems of matter are ina constant change. Spontaneous and animalmotions occasion a continual waste of certainParts of matter, and myriads of particles arecontinually flying off from all parts of ourbodies, or successively excerned from them:this loss we are obliged carefully to make upwith new additions of proper matter, whichforces the body into fits of indisposition, in*ttrvals of rest and steep, that this newlythrown in matter may be wrought up in aproper form, and disposed to succeed in the

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