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that even if they were mortal, there would be no Evil in
Death? Auditor. I remembred it, but I could with
Pleasure suffer your digressions when you discoursed
of Eternity. Marcus. I see your mind is fixed upon
going to heaven: I hope we shall: but we will ——
suppose the Soul mortal Auditor. I see then we
shall be deprived of the hope of a better life. Marcus
but where is the Evil in this Opinion? we'll allow
that the Soul perishes in the same manner as the
body: is there then any pain or sense at all in the
body after Death? nobody says that although ——
Epicurus charges Democritus with it, the Democriteans
denie it. there is no sense therefore remaining in
the Soul: for itself does not exist. where then is the
Evil? since there is no medium; is it an Evil because
there is some little pain during the time of the ———
seperation? supposing it so, yet what a trifle is it!
and indeed I do not think it; for it happens oftentimes
when the dying man has lost all sense, and sometimes
indeed with Pleasure; and all this, let it be what it
will, is but a trifle, for it is over in an instant but
it is the leaving behind them the good things of this
world that torments them; tho' I am afraid they
are rather bad than good things, why should I
now bewail the life of men? I could very justly,
but what should I by lamenting, make this life
more disagreeable, while I am proving that we

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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