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the Human Will : And it is in this way chiefly that Providence 

 direds the afFairs of men*. 



* The Antients believed that every man had a Genius, or attendant Spirit, that 

 accompanied him through life, whom Horace calls the ' Naturae Deus Humanae,' 

 and Menander the Poet has defcribcd in the following lines : 



Clem. Alexandrin. Strom. Lib. 5. 



One thing, I think, is certain, that many things come into our Minds, when wc 

 are awake, as well as when we are aflecp, and fome of them of the greatefl import- 

 ance to us, that cannot be accounted for from any connexion of ideas, and which, 

 therefore, I hold not to be the production of our ov/n Minds, but the fuggeftion of 

 other Minds, 



