300 The soul necessarily livings

let us fee that the great Contriver was hotstraitned; and that there were more ways of

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tion, are but the art neceflary to it as being confined»for we should still incur the contradiction, which I haveendeavoured to explode in the beginning of this section)that two dead substances might rise to life by being unit'ed; if we allowed that the motion of dead matter, h O'd'soever modified, might endue the soul with a perceptivecapacity of any objects, whether placed before, or be'hind us.

Therefore I conclude universally, with respect to ex-ternal objects, and the functions of the senses, that th eperceptivity of the foul is confined by the organs of sen^and no way effeSted. by them; or (if this way of exp^"sing it be thought not so accurate) that the organssense take off some of that limitation from the percept 1 'vity of the soul, which would be otherwise universal,and that the modification of the motion is necessary, n 0 *upon the account of the perception, but upon the accoU 1 ^of the confinement. As more art is required, \vh& &the difficulty in the performance is greater. And, ^any should think this a partial account of this affair; 1 stus suppose a man suddenly deprived of hearing, Jeei n Pfeeling, he. or the organs to be disabled; and let us cogsider the state of the soul in these circumstances. L a "ly, Ictus suppose that all the avenues of the senses v? ere■opened again: In the first cafe there is a total li?nitati° n ^and in the second, a part of that limitation is removed'but the foul itself is neither deprived of its perceptive"pacity in the one, nor endued with it anew in the oth es ’

' that remains inherent in the soul itself.

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