of the soul confdered. 419

go on with the comparison : the applicationis obvious, and shews that the objection pro-ceeds from much inattention. Let me onlyobserve, that the soul may still be present,though no signs of life appear about the bo-dy ; for, as was said in N° 6. we can see butwith bodily eyes; and the activity of the soulis only discoverable by motion in the body ;and that motion is performed mechanically.Ye did not fee my soul all along {fays.Cyrus onhis death-bed to his sons) ; but discovered itonly from those things, which it performed inthe body (e). If therefore the mechanism beobstructed, mechanical motion is stops, andthe animal must appear dead. Though no-thing is wider from a just conclusion, thanthat the foul is dead; or results only from themechanical motions in the body. If thatwere so, how could it be other than a newsoul, kindled up again, after the mechanical

(e) ’Qvcl y »»»ro 1 tw y 4 /V X^ 11 Ivgdre. d>X ol'e 'e Wfd.’v-TETO, raru! aaT/lv ue £<?av xaTitpaeuTe. apud Xen. We havethis more at large in Cicero, Ncc enim, dum cram vobis-cum, animum meum videbatis: fed , cum ejst in hoc cor-pore , ex Us rebus, quas gerebam, intelli-gebatis. The con-clusion is, Eundem igitur effe credkoie, etiamfi nullum•videbitis. Or rather this sentence is lost in the Greeksince Cicero’s time, as appears by what follows.

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