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and ours with propriety; and as little liable tothe inconvenience arising from being madsup of parts, as pure spiritual substance itself*Whence, in a particular manner, appearstheir folly, who, to prove the foul mortal,think it enough if it were shewn material:for if other difficulties would allow the foulto be at all material, this would be no hin-drance ; as hath often before been said.Whence also it appears that an objectionstarted by modern Free-thinkers on this sub-ject, is either a wilful mistake, or made thro'much inadvertency: namely, That if all themen that ever lived on the earth, were tohave bodies given them at one time, therewould be a deficiency of matter to furnishout so many corporeal systems; and that ifthese bodies were to be transported toa purer,finer æther, they would not be able to subsistfor any time (?«). This is poor indeed forphilosophers! The meanest among the peopl?have more refined notions, than to imaginethat we should eat, drink, and do the larn§things in an after-Jlate , as now; or that themass of blood should be as liable to feversthere, as here after a debauch! These men(m) See a IateBookj The adventures ff/JsacquesMaflfr'

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