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would be then wholly ours, to bestow uponrational acquisitions, arid the pursuit of un-‘fading pleasures. In short, as certain as it isthat we cannot be other than miserable, un-der the present constitution of our body, (asshall be made appear) so certain is it, thatthis change will free us from all that load ofpain and affliction, not only in our body,but in our minds, and bring us up to thatstate of indolence , which shall be explainedbelow. And this is all indeed, I conceive,that can be expected on the part of mattes :the rest of our happiness, true and unallay^pleasure, must consist in the gratifications ofthe rational nature, and be solely felt in outimmaterial part. But is not this enough; lSit not a wonderful instance of power, thatwe shall be as easy and free in our fellow-ship with unactive substance, as spirits quit®disengaged from it!

IV. Again, we may say, I think, with''out incurring any inconvenient consequencesthat when the bodies of rational beings al®designed for other climates of the universethan such a gross part as we reside in at P re 'sent, a small quantity of that bulk of matt^