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appears greater in beasts whose Souls are irrational. but
the likeness of men one to another, appears mostly in the
figure of the body: for the shape of the body has great
influence over the Disposition of the Soul which animates
it: as there are many outward accidents of the body, —
which may either conduce to the blunting of the acumen
of the mind. or the whetting of it. Aristotle indeed says,
that all ingenious men are melancholy; so that I am
not sorry that I am duller than some others, he —
reckons up many; and as if it were a constant rule, he
gives a reason, why it is so, but if those things which
are produced in the body have such influence over the
mind, it is those, what things soever they are, —
which make the Similitudes: but that is no reason,
why the Soul was born. I wont mention the dissimilitudes
I wish Panaetius was here; he lived with Africanus:
I would be glad to know from him, which of his
ancestors, Africanus's brother's grandson was like?
in his face, he was like his father: but in his life,
a most abandoned wretch, which was the case of a Grandson
of P. Crassus a man of Great Wisdom and eloquence
and of the first nobility, besides the Sons and —
Grandsons of many other famous men, whom
it does not signify mentioning, but what are we
doing? have we not forgot that we were to prove,
after having said enough of the immortality of Souls,

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Identifier: | JB/537/108/002
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1761-01-27

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108

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002

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Jeremy Bentham

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