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tnay have after the dissolution of their bodies ;hut leave all to the Being who made them.But secondly we may observe, how far theargument in this section is not applicable tothe souls of brutes. It is to be observed thatthe activity of the human soul is of two kinds ,that which is exerted in moving the limbsspontaneously; arid that power whereby weturn back our perceptive capacity to our pastPerceptions, or bring them in the view again,so as to compare them together. The percep-tivity of it is also twofold; for it is percipient°f the action of matter upon itself, and per-cipient of its own internal operations in th ink-ing. See sect. i.N° 1. The last kind of ac-tivity, and the perceptivity resulting from it,is much more noble, more indesinent, andIndefeasible, than the first. Now, thoughbrutes have the first of these powers in coiri-ynon with men, and the perceptivity belong-ing to it; yet they want altogether the second,a nd therefore the perceptivity resulting fromit: for it is in that power alone that the rati-onal nature consists; since we are neither ra-tional nor free in any other respect. In thediscovery of truth, and all the acquisitions ofknowledge we make, we are active only in

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