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that now composes them, will serve for cor-poreal systems in those finer regions. For itis the identity of consciousness, not of ma-terial parts, that constitutes the fame con-scious or rational being. Since then it appearshy what hath been said in that second section,that the attraElion of cohesion , whereby theparts (of all the parts) of our bodies stick to-gether, is the immediate effect of the FirfiCause-, if it shall so seem good to his infiniteand unerring wisdom, that this attractionshould be more intense in those finer systems,these parts would thus become fixt and per-manent, and all change, waste, and conse-quently reparation, be prevented. And bythis way of conceiving it also, we comeagain to a possibility' of the same effect: inwhich way of conceiving, no inconsistencycan be alledged, unless by asserting the pointin dispute, that any disposition whatever,differing from the present animal œconomy,is impossible. And the advantages of thischange would be the fame that were just nowenumerated. The resisting part of our com-position would thus be lessened: such bodieswould not at all be cumbersom, but obse-quious and easy; still numerically the same,U 3 and