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posed then as at other times; that the com-mon sense of mankind doth not allow, orimagine it possible, that disease or age shouldaffect the will, or weaken the intensity of ourdesires; and that we are subject to no decaysor depredations of time in respect of thatwhich is the proper activity and power of thefoul. But the Epicurean hath palmed uponus the accidents of the body, as belonging tothe foul itself; because by the law of theirpresent union , it is forced to sympathize withthem. It was while he looked upon his ai~msthat Mi lo wept, and cried; At hi quidem jammortui sunt. He did not lament the decayof his foul, but his muscles shrunk up, andsinews unstrung. It is the body of the ele-phant, that supports the turret and fightingmen. Let us suppose, as a possible conjectureonly, that the body hath an immaterial mover ,which is obliged to move it, by the instru-mentality of organs, and the laws of me-chanism; and all these appearances becomeequally necessary , as on the supposition of Lu-Cr etius’s material movers: which fliews ushow equivocal these appearances aye j andhow sophistical it is to build a conclusionUpon them. But when we call to mind theB b 4 principle,.