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" tlie cure of all difeales, I will here, once for all, plainly declare my 

 " fentiments of what we ought to underlland by that word. That 

 " there is fomctliing within us, whicli perceives, thinks, and reafcns, 

 " is manifeft beyond contradi61:ion : And yet, tlie nature of that 

 " fomething, cannot be fully and perfe6lly comprehended in this life. 

 " Wherefore I Ihall refign the difquifition of this point to thofe, vho, 

 " while they know too little of, and care lefs for, things falling under 

 " their fenfes, take great pleafure in inveftigating tiioie things which 

 " human reafon is incapable of conceiving. However, thus far the 

 " foundell Philofophers agree concerning it, that it is fomewhat in- 

 " corporeal. For, how can fluggifli Matter, which is, of itfelf, void 

 " of all motion, be the fource and firft caufe of Thought, the moft 

 " excellent of all motions .? Wherefore, it is fufticiently evident, 

 " that this firfi: mover within us, is a fpirit of fome kind or other, 

 " entirely different and feparable from terrefirial matter, and yet, 

 " moft intimately united with our body. " 



" Moreover, to me, it feems probable, that this active principle, is 

 " not of the fame fort in all ; that the Almighty Creator has en- 

 " dewed man with one fort, and brutes with another ; that the for- 

 " mer fo far partakes of a divine nature, as to be able to exift, and 

 " think, after its feparation from the body ; but that OTc latter is of 

 " fuch an inferior order, as to perifh with the body. " 



" Now this matter, if I am not miftaken, {lands thus : Such is the 

 " compofition of our fabrick, that when any thing pernicious has got 

 " footing within the body, the governing mind gives fuch an impulfe 

 " to thofe inftruments ^of motion, the animal fpirits, as to raife 

 " thole commotions in the blood and humours, wh.ich may relieve 

 " the whole frame from the danger in which it is involved. And 

 " this is done in fo fudden a manner, that it Ihould feem to be the 

 " effe6l of inftin6l, rather than voluntary motion, thougli it be 

 " effe6led at the command of the aftive principle. And, indeed, thofe 



