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<p>consider with myself of the Immortality of the Soul, my<lb/> | |||
belief always staggers. Marcus. do you allow, that Souls<lb/> | |||
either remain after Death, or perish by Death itself. —<lb/> | |||
Auditor yes. Marcus. What if they remain? Auditor<lb/> | |||
I allow they will be happy. Marcus. if they perish.<lb/> | |||
Auditors they will not be miserable, because they will<lb/> | |||
not exist. that you know I granted, being convinced by you<lb/> | |||
a while ago. Marcus. but how then can you call Death<lb/> | |||
miserable, which will either make us happy if our souls<lb/> | |||
remain, or at least not miserable if they perish. Auditor.<lb/> | |||
prove then, unless it is troublesome, first, if you can,<lb/> | |||
that Souls do remain after Death; and then if you cannot<lb/> | |||
do that, (for it must be very difficult) convince, me that<lb/> | |||
death is entirely free from all Evil. but I fear, I shall<lb/> | |||
think it an unhappy circumstance, not that when we are <add>dead</add><lb/> | |||
we shall be senseless, but that we expect <add>it</add> now we are<lb/> | |||
living. Marcus Oh, as for that matter I can support<lb/> | |||
that Opinion which you are desirous of with the best<lb/> | |||
Authority: because in all cases it ought and used to be<lb/> | |||
of the greatest weight: and, first of all, indeed, from all<lb/> | |||
Antiquity, which the nearer it was to the beginning and<lb/> | |||
creation of the World, so much the better, very likely it<lb/> | |||
could come at the truth of those things. therefore —<lb/> | |||
there was one thing implanted in those <sic>Antients</sic>, whom<lb/> | |||
Ennius calls <foreign>casei</foreign>, viz that people had sense after<lb/> | |||
Death nor were they <add>so</add> destroyed. by the departure</p> | |||
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consider with myself of the Immortality of the Soul, my
belief always staggers. Marcus. do you allow, that Souls
either remain after Death, or perish by Death itself. —
Auditor yes. Marcus. What if they remain? Auditor
I allow they will be happy. Marcus. if they perish.
Auditors they will not be miserable, because they will
not exist. that you know I granted, being convinced by you
a while ago. Marcus. but how then can you call Death
miserable, which will either make us happy if our souls
remain, or at least not miserable if they perish. Auditor.
prove then, unless it is troublesome, first, if you can,
that Souls do remain after Death; and then if you cannot
do that, (for it must be very difficult) convince, me that
death is entirely free from all Evil. but I fear, I shall
think it an unhappy circumstance, not that when we are dead
we shall be senseless, but that we expect it now we are
living. Marcus Oh, as for that matter I can support
that Opinion which you are desirous of with the best
Authority: because in all cases it ought and used to be
of the greatest weight: and, first of all, indeed, from all
Antiquity, which the nearer it was to the beginning and
creation of the World, so much the better, very likely it
could come at the truth of those things. therefore —
there was one thing implanted in those Antients, whom
Ennius calls casei, viz that people had sense after
Death nor were they so destroyed. by the departure
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Jeremy Bentham |
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