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which he calls the foul, to be disseminatesthrough the whole body (z): but he forgetsto consider that the appearance, which hebrings, as an objection, agrees better withthe contrary hypothesis, than his. For if theSetitient in the body is a different substanceFrom matter, it must feel the limbs becomegradually incapable of being actuated, as thedisorder of the mechanism encreafes; where-as on his supposition of a dividuous foul,which dies in one limb after another (k), thelimb would be quite void of pain, as if it werecut off. His scattered soul doth not agreewith the anatomy of an animal body, whereall the nerves terminate in one place, andconvey all the external motions impresiedthither (/). There is something full of a

childish

(i) Sic anima atque animus per senil poffe videntur :Nimirum quia per venas, its ■viscera misiim.,

Per nerves, atque ossa tenentur corpore ab omni.

Ver. 564.

And again,

Namqueita connexa ’Jiper venas , viscera , nervesOssaque•, uii dentes quoque sense participentur.

Ver. 691.

(£) - Inde pedes , id crura nwri: post inde per art us.

Ire alias tractim gelid! vesigia letbi.

Ver. 627.

(/) It is extremely remarkable, I think, that Lucre -E e 4 iir-r