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leclual mind, which is the moft valuable part of our compofition, mufl: 

 proceed from knowledge, (for to excel in knowledge is the per- 

 fe£lion of our intellectual mind), fo it muft make our moft perfe£l 

 happinefs. It is, therefore, not without realbn, what Plato has faid, 

 that philofophV is the greateft blefling which the Gods have bellowed 

 upon man. 



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