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follies of other men, that no learning cr philofophy can make fuch 

 men happy to any great degree, without the prolpcct of greater hap- 

 pinefs in a life to come. But before we come to fpeak of the hap- 

 pinefs which we may enjoy in a future life, it mull: be firft proved 

 that we are to live after death, and not to perifli with our bodies. 



The Greek philofophers, as I have faid elfewherc, maintained the 

 immortality of our minds ; but it appears, from a Dialogue of Plato, 

 upon the fubjedt of Mind, entitled Msvuv ti ^s^< '^l"JZ'^'t ^^^^ ^'^^ 

 learned among them w^ere not agreed upon the point ; and that many 

 of them believed that our minds periih with our bodies : And, in- 

 deed, if there were no better arguments to be given for that immor- 

 tality, than thofe urged in that very long dialogue, I fliould have a 

 very great doubt in the matter. But, from the arguments I have 

 ufed in the preceding part of this volume*, joined with what I fhall 

 here add, I hope I iliail demonftrate that our intelledual mind does 

 not perilli with our bodies ; for the queftion lure is only concerning 

 that mind, net our animal or vegetable miads. 



And, in the firfl; place, I lay that this intelledual mind Is a beino- 

 diftind by itfelf, and no part of the body, (though it be fo much 

 joined with the body, that it may be faid to dwell in it); for it adls 

 by itfelf. Now what ads by itfelf, muft exift by itfelf: And. it is fo 

 fiir from being aflifted by the body in its operations, that it is imped- 

 ed by it ; and never ads fo freely, as when it feparates itfelf froni 

 body as much as it can : And in this refpcd it is effcntially dif- 

 ferent from both our animal and vegetable minds; for neither of llicrc 

 can ad without body, or be conceived to exift without body. And 

 I lay further, it is not only a being different from body, but is of a 

 nature quite different. This I infer from tlic ojKrations of our intcl- 

 Icdual mind, compared with thofe of the body ; for, as in this date 



of 

 • P. 126. See ^Ifo Vol. I. p. 196. 



