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16. Although the spirit may be said to be liable to change 

 which respects either its combinations or its quantum, we can 

 scarcely insist much upon such a division, for that which we may 

 attribute to excess or deficiency may arise only from a different 

 disposition of its properties, and possibly changes in the combina- 

 tions of properties may occur from defect or excess of quantity. 

 These latter states must, however, be dependent upon the blood, 

 and the blood being dependent upon the preparatory organs, and 

 the phenomena of these organs being regulated by the disposition 

 of the life that resides in them, the phenomena in question, even 

 the defects or excess of the quantity of the principle, may come 

 ultimately to be referred to its identity or disposition in some or 

 other of its seats. 



