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.fcprefentatlon. Th'rdly, fince they believe that the being which 



is poffeffed of fenllition and of thinking, or as they Qdll it, of forming^ 



the fpeech in the belly fparou-no-te-oboo) exifls, after death in a 

 feparate flate, and is then even unfeen capable of adions fimilar 



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to thofe it performed when combined with the body, viz. af 



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from the acflions of their 



feeing, hearing, receiving pleafure 



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friends, and of fhewing its difpleafure 



people 'j it is 



evident that they think of an invifible being, very difbind from 

 the body, and endowed with a free agency. This they call 



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;prefent it frequently under the 



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a man or woman, feldom exceeding eighteen inches in heighth ; 

 which again feems to indicate that this figure is not intended to be 



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the real figure of the invifible foul, but only its emblem. 

 Fourthly i as they think man to have defcended from their fupreme 

 deity, it is evident they mufl likewife imagine man to be in fome 

 inferior degree homogeneous to their divinities 



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their divinities are according to their opinion analogous to man, 

 iind as they often told me the great Eatooa could not be feen, or 

 in other words was invifible, this analogy cannot lie in the body the 

 only vifible part of man, and 43i.ufl: therefore confifi: in the part capa- 

 ble of thinking and reafoning, which in fomemeafure is analogous to 

 the fcriptural phrafe of the image of God, after which man was 

 iirfi: made. Lajily, as they attribute to O-Tk a the firfi; man but 



cine wife, this circumftance feems to imply that they think monoga- 



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