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Comparisons do not hit in all particulars:yet it is not difficult to apply this to the cafeof the body as actuated by the foul; nor isthere any considering person, I think, whot^aynotsee from this instance (in some man-ger parallel) how frivolous those objectionsar e, which the Sceptic brings from the in-equalities observable in the body, to prove thesoul material. For though it may be said,that the force which moves the limbs dothn ot belong to the foul, as hath been strewnbefore; yet that need be no objection to theComparison : for the disorder of the partscertainly hinders that force from being ex-erted, and the command of the foul overthe body to appear ; since it hath likewisebeen strewn, that this force is subservientto the spontaneous mover ■ and therefore inthe present case may be considered as its°Wn force.

XXI. From the soul’s necessarily actuatingthe body, either during its being rightly dis-posed, or as soon as the indisposition of it isrectified, it farther appears, that the law of*beir union is such, that only a final inepti-tude of the body to be actuated, can separate

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