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parts of our composition. The bodies ar tours,but the fouls are us, if 1 may so express it:and he seems to revolt against himself, whoraises the body above its rank. In a word,the foul cannot depend on the body as anejstcientox performing cause of rational think-ing: and that it should depend upon it as alimiting or impeding cauje can be no objection.

XIV. The next argument or objection isthe appearance of drunkenness. Lucretiusfays, the eyes then roll, the tongue faulters,the legs stagger ^ the joul itself is inebriated ;noise, tumult, and quarrels begin (g): there-fore a foul that is so disordered can be no-thing but matter, or the result of a dispositionof matter. This doth not altogether differfrom the difficulty last considered; and there-fore a good part of that reasoning will be

(z) Denique cur, bominem cum vint vispenetravitAcris ; & in venas discejjit diditus ardor :Consequitur gravitas memlrorum ? præpediunturCruravacillonti? tardescitlingua? madet mcns?Nant oculi ? clamor, fingultus, jurgia gliscunt?

Et jam ceetera de gencre hoc quescitnque sequuntur ,Cur ea sunt ; nisi quid vehement violentia viniConturbare animam consuevit corpore in ipso ?

Ver. 475.

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