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would be, that it would lofe the miniftry of the Animal Life, and 

 could not move Bodies, nor receive perceptions and impreflions 

 in the fame manner as it did before. Our Intellectual Part is not 

 more connefted with our Animal, than the Animal is with the 

 Vegetable in us ; and yet we know, not from reafoning only, but 

 from fad: and obfervation, that the Animal or Senfitive Life may 

 ceafe in one of our members, and yet the Vegetable continue. 



It may, therefore, be laid down, as a general propofition, That, 

 when Subftances are diftinft, however they may be conneded toge- 

 ther, the deftrudion of the one will not be attended with the de- 

 ftrudion of the other. That this is the cafe of Bodies, we have ocu- 

 lar proof; for different corporeal Subftances, however intimately 

 they may be mixed and incorporated together, can be feparated and 

 analyfed, without any hurt to any of the compounds by the diflb- 

 lution : And the fame is true of the compofition of Mind. 



^tioy If the incorporeal Subftances in us cannot be deftroyed or 

 annihilated, by the feparation from one another, or even by the an- 

 nihilation of any one of them, if we could fuppofe fuch a thing, 

 much lefs can they be deftroyed by the feparation or diflblution of 

 the Body to which they are joined ; for they arc Subftances ftill 

 more diftind, if poflible, from Body, than from one another. Body 

 being of a nature much more different from Mind, than any Species 

 of Mind can be from another. As to our Intelledual Mind, it is not, 

 as we have feen, immediately conneded with our Bodies, but only 

 with our Animal Life, through which it operates upon our Bodies, 

 and receives impreflions and perceptions from thence : But in 

 that way only it is conneded even with the Animal Life ; for, when 

 it forms Ideas, thinks and reafons, it ads by itfelf, without the leaft 

 afliftance from the Animal Part of us. And, as we know the Na- 

 ture 



