of the soul considered. 3^1

himself hath sufficiently exposed. Whenceit is plain, whatever artifice or shift menMay make use of in affirming the materialityof the soul, they will always be liable to thecontradictions shewn above : and from theprinciple there laid down, all the objectionsagainst its being immaterial, drawn from thesymptoms of mechanism, and mechanicalMotion in the body, lose their force at once;without recurring to what was said N° 1 3.Sect. 2. which cuts them off upon other ac-counts. However we shall go on to parti-cularize them.

V. The first difficulty men pretend so havel n allowing the soul to be material, is whathath been accidentally mentioned elsewhere(Sect. 2. N° 3 2.) viz. that they cannot con-cewe when, or how immaterial substance coulde joined to matter in the bodies of men,“easts and insects. But to shew the weak-est of this objection, we need only consider^hat hath been already proved to be doneCy en with regard to the bodies of animals,by Vvhose power, The bodies of all ani-'^ds, man’s not excepted, are brought up from*hings of imperceptible magnitude, throughB b 2 various