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stand, just arrived from the River Acheron by steep and —
difficult ways through Caves formed by vast Piles of Ruggid
Rocks impending, where is the thickest darkness. that
fills the infernal Regions." and this Error was so ———
prevalent, that tho' they saw the bodies burnt, yet nevertheless
they feigned things done by them, which could not possibly
be done without Bodys. for they could not comprehend how
Souls could live of themselves; they looked for some —
shape and figure upon which Opinion was grounded
the whole plan of the 11th Book of the Odyssey called (νεχυια)
upon which also my friend Appius made his (νεκυομαντεια).
from hence also sprung the notion of the lake, Avernus
in our Neighbourhood, where Souls, the phantoms of the
dead, covered with thick darkness, were raised in the —
passage to the deep Avernus, by sprinkling of Salt. yet
they will have these phantoms speak, which they —
cannot do, with neither Tongue, nor palate, nor the ——
operative power nor figure of the Jaws, ribbs and lungs.
for they thought nothing could be seen by the Mind; but
transferred all sight to the Eyes; and truly it requires
a great deal of skill to part our Mind from our Senses, and
to lead away our thoughts from a subject we have been
used to. therefore I entertain the opinion that others
did so many Ages before me; but (as I find by reading)
Pherecydes a Syrian first held that the Souls of Men
were immortal: he was of great Antiquity without —

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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