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' '—-Ne forte animus Acherunte reamurRffugere ; ant umbras inter vivos volitare ;^ e 'Ve aliquid nofiri poft mortem pose relin -qui y &c, Ver. 41.

° r j as appears from what was lately said,this is the doctrine of Democritus (e). Andplainly, no words could so well demon-ic to us the folly of attempting to ac-c °Unt for this various, wonderful , living ap-$ e f r ance (so to speak) as remarking upon

absurd fictions. And to save the troubleof

re peating it often, let me observe, that^ e -Authors of all the other hypotheses woulde as ridiculous, if they were as minute.^ hey fay some general thing or other 5 butar e not offer to apply their solutions to any

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ltutes instead of this, is his own solution; where, ifUj C ° n ^ u lt the place, we shall fee no less egregious tri-. ‘ Because the air is not ruffled with wind in the

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