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and withal to add, that I conceive the difpute 

 between them, and their antagonifts (like 

 many other learned difputes) to be rather 

 concerning the terms, than the fubflance of 

 the argument. All parties evidently fee and 

 feel a fomething to exift, which it is not in 

 the power of reafon to get rid of, either in this 

 world, or the next. 



Thefe free opinions may poffibly run coun- 

 ter to certain eftablifhed fyflems, religious or 

 prophane, but it does not thence follow, that 

 they are contrary to truth ; the only probable 

 mode to attain which, that I am apprized of, 

 is to give reafon unbounded fcope, to judge 

 impartially of the evidence before her. In 

 purfuance of this philofophy, we will then 

 fay, that as the anatomical art evinces the ftri£i 

 analogy between the brute and human body, 

 fo the conftant experience of the fenfes con- 

 firms the fame, in refpecl to the mind and its 

 qualities. The Horfe is endowed with fuch 

 as we are compelled to denominate qualities of 

 mind ; namely, perception, confcioufnefs, me- 

 mory, free-will ; in thefe originate love, hatred, 

 fear, fortitude, patience, generofity, obedience, a 

 limited fenfe of jufiice. He reafons ; he there- 

 fore poffeffes an immortal and imperimable 

 foul. 



To fceptics (pretended or otherwife) I fay, 

 if an animal reafons in degree, it is to poflefs 



the 



