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at times very didant from the time of our prefent exiftence. And 

 it will be the more proper here to make fome further obfervations 

 upon this fubjed, as it will fhow ftill more evidently that wonderful 

 analogy there is betwixt our Mind and the Divine. 



When we go back to paft time, or are converfant with objeds in 

 diftant places, it is evident to me that the Mind muft be fome way or 

 other prefent with the objeds, though far removed both in time and 

 place : For, how is it poffible otherwife to conceive that the Mind 

 can perceive or apprehend them. And it is no anfwer to fay that the 

 objeds are painted in our imagination, and that we perceive them 

 as we do figures in a pidure ; for that is no more than a fimilitude, 

 or a metaphorical way of fpeaking, as when we fay that a thing has 

 made an imprejfton upon our Mind, fo that we remember it ; nor 

 is it poffible that fuch figurative expreffions, borrowed from corpo- 

 real things, can be underftood literally of an immaterial fubftance, 

 fuch as the Mind. There can, therefore, be no pidure, impreffion, 

 or reprefentation of any kind, of the objeds, but the Mind muft, as 

 I have faid, be one way or other prefent with the things them- 

 felves, fo as to be able to apprehend or lay hold of them. Now, 

 this can only be in one of two ways, cither by the things coming 

 to the Mind, or by the Mind going to them. The firft is impoffible, 

 and therefore the laft muft be the truth of the matter : And the 

 Mind muft tranfport itfelf in a way w^e cannot explain, though we 

 be fure of the fad, to the moft diftant places, and alfo to the moft 

 remote times, and there perceive objeds, even fuch as have no longer 

 any exiftence. 



The mere materiallft, or thofe who have only ftudied Body and 

 its operations, will have no idea of the poffibility of this ; but the 

 theift, who believes in the omniprefence of God, and that he fees 

 all things, paft, prefent, and future, will have no difficulty to con- 

 ceive that the human Mind may have fo much of divinity in it, as 



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