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should I not find that even the great Gods went from us
to heaven? only such whose sepulchres are shewn in —
Greece: remember, since you are initiated in them, what
things are related in their mysteries: then finally you
will understand how widely that Opinion is spread.
but they who had not learned those Physicks, (which
were begun a good many years after) had only learnt ——
what nature shewed them, they did not hold the —
reasons and Causes of things: they were often ——
admonished by visions and those chiefly in the night
time, so as they who died seemed then as if alive. —
and that I may give you the Strongest proofs that
there are Gods, consider there is no one nation so
barbarous and Savage, but what has received some
notion of a Deity. many have very depraved notions of
the Gods: but that is caused by a vitious custom: but
all think there is a divine Nature and Power. Nor
yet is that caused by conversation or consent of men
nor is the Opinion confirmed By laws and institutes,
for in all cases the common consent and Agreement
of Nations is to be deemed the Law of Nature. Who therefore
would not bewail his friend's death, chiefly because he
thinks him deprived of the pleasures of Life? take away
that notions you take away his Grief, for nobody is —
sorry for the loss of him, so far as it respects himself:
they Grieve perhaps, and are troubled: but that Grief

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	093	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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