of the soul consdered.

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XVIII. As to the foul’s not flying awayimmediately: How can it without licence ?Who is judge of the time ? This proceedson the supposition of want of governmentand providence in this momentous junc-tures). As was argued before, if the powerof a governing cause is constantly exertedupon inanimate matter j and if all the changesin the manner of its existence require hisconcurrence; how much more must the ra->tional and living part of his works, for whichall the rest were designed, challenge his careand providence? If we were to assign a pro-portion here, as certainly there cannot be adefect of proportion, how great would thedifference be! Besides, is it not by his power ,that the disorders of the circulation, refpira-

Sceptic can have no idea or conception belonging to suchassertions. And all this is as applicable to his supposi-tion that the soul is produced by the mechanical motionsof the body, as to the supposition that thought may beproduced by the balance of a watch while it beats. Animpossibility in the one cafe, must be no less an impos-sibility in the other.

(g) Nisi enim Deus is, cujus hoc templum est otrme,quod conspicis, istis te corporis custodiis liheraverit, huetilt aditus patere mquit. Cic. somn. Scip.

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