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Cup bearer to Jupiter for there was no just reason, why such
an injury, should be offered to Laomedon; Homer feigned
these things, and referred human Actions to the Gods: I
had rather have divine Actions referred to us. what divine
Actions? to live and flourish, to be wise, to have Memory,
and invention. therefore the Soul which, as I said, was
divine, is, as Euripides dares to say, God himself. and
indeed if God is breath or fire, the Soul is the same.
for as that celestial Nature is free from all terrene and
aqueous particles: so likewise is the Soul of Man free
from them: but if it is that fifth kind of Nature of
Aristotle's, this belongs both to the Gods, and to the
Soul of man, we, choosing to follow this Opinion, have
expressed it in these very words as a Consolation:
"There can be found no Origin of the Soul on Earth: for there
is nothing therein mixed and concrete or earthly nothing moist, airey, or, igneous for
"these things have nothing in their Nature. that has the
"power of Memory, mind and thoughts; that can remember
"the past, foresee the future, and understand the present;
"which things alone are divine: nor can it be found out
"whence it comes to man, unless from God; the Nature
"therefore and power of the Soul is singular, and entirely
"different from every thing else. so whatsoever that is,
"which is wise, which lives which flourishes; is celestial,
"and divine, and for that reason immortal. nor can
"God himself, as we understand of him, be understood as
"any thing else, but a kind of a free and abstract Mind,
"seperate from all Mortal Substance: who sees every

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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