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let it be so but else, go upon t'other. Marcus, what I ——
understand you wou'd have me do, is, I think, most convenient;
for reason will shew you, that let which so ever of these —
Opinions be true that I have setforth, Death must be
at least, no Evil, if it is no good. for let the Heart, the Blood,
or the Brain be the Soul; without doubt, since it is ——
Corporeal, it will perish with the rest of the Body: if it
is the Breath perhaps it will be dissipated; if fire,
extinguished; if the harmony of Aristoxenus, dissolved.
what shall we say of Dicaearctus, who says the Soul is
nothing at all? according to every one of these Opinions —
nothing after Death can belong to any one, for sense —
always perishes together with life. and so nothing of
Sensibility or the thinking faculty can remain in any
part. the Opinions of the rest will give you great hopes,
if this gives you satisfaction that Souls when they have
gone out of their bodies may go to heaven, as it were to
their proper Mansion. Auditor. I should be delighted
indeed if it were so, and even if not, I would persuade
myself it was so. Marcus. what Occasion then is —
there for my Indeavours? am I more eloquent than Plato?
read over his treatise of the Soul carefully and you will
desire nothing more. Auditor. I have read it, over and
very often indeed: and I do not know how, while I
am reading of it, I am always of that Opinion; but
when I have laid down his Book and begin to —

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	092	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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