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kind become certain death (b). Farther, letit be observed, and indeed every body musthave observed it, that a piece of mechanismso rude and clumsy as a clock is, doth notgo after the same precise tenor, in the diffe-rent extremes of heat and cold: and if a

( 'b ) Or, is the soul results from a certain disposition cfparts ; how can it result from a contrary disposition ofthese parts ? Or if it result from any intermediate de-gree of disposition; the difficulty will be, not that' itfeels the disorders of the body, since it results even fromthese; but why it is not constantly changed fundamen-tally since the cause of it is constantly changed; for everynew change is still productive of the foul. It should thenbe but a quality constantly produced; and therefore ne-ver the fame ; as the flame this minute is not the samewith the flame that was last minute: and how can onequality be the subject of other qualities? In short, the foulcannot be the result of one individual disposition of matter:for then every change of that disposition would be certaindeath. Nor therefore can it result from a right dispo-sition of matter ; for that is individual. And if it can-not result from a right disposition, or a regularity of dis-position, it would be absurd to say, it results from thedisorder and irregularity of disposition. This very easyand short consideration will satisfy a man all at oncethat the foul is not material, without having recourse toother methods of reasoning. So, that, as was said N 3 x.of this section, the very objections against the immateri-ality of the foul afford a deaf and convincing proof thatit is immaterial. 4 niece