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'' | <p>acknowledge the divine power of the Soul. in what place is<lb/> | ||
it therefore? I should think, in the head, and I could<lb/> | |||
give reasons to support my Opinion; but if you were to<lb/> | |||
ask not so particularly where is your Soul: I should answer<lb/> | |||
certainly within you. what is its Nature? peculiar to itself,<lb/> | |||
but suppose it igneous, suppose it breathable that is ——<lb/> | |||
nothing to our purpose, only <add>attend</add> to this: in the same manner<lb/> | |||
as you knew God, <sic>tho'</sic> you do not know his place or his ——<lb/> | |||
appearance: so you <sic>shou'd</sic> know your own Soul, <sic>tho'</sic> you<lb/> | |||
do not know its residence, nor external appearance. but<lb/> | |||
indeed we cannot doubt, except we are mere block heads in<lb/> | |||
Metaphysics, but that, the Soul is entirely free from —<lb/> | |||
gross particles, mixture, concretion, copulation, alloy<lb/> | |||
complexity, duplicity, whatsoever. and, being so, it can<lb/> | |||
neither be <sic>seperated</sic>, divided, torn asunder, or distracted,<lb/> | |||
nor therefore can it perish. for perishing is, as it were,<lb/> | |||
a <sic>seperation</sic> and disjunction of those parts of a body,<lb/> | |||
of which it was made up and Composed. Socrates, being<lb/> | |||
convinced by these and ——<lb/> like reasons of the immor=<lb/> | |||
=tality of the Soul, refused either to be patronized from<lb/> | |||
the laws by which he was condemned; or to humble himself<lb/> | |||
before the Judges, <sic>tho'</sic> he might have saved his life: but<lb/> | |||
armed himself with a noble inflexibility, which ——<lb/> | |||
proceeded not from pride, but greatness of Soul: and on<lb/> | |||
the last day of his life, he discoursed a good deal upon —<lb/> | |||
that very subject; and a few days before that, <sic>tho'</sic> he<lb/> | |||
might have easily got out of Custody, he would not: —</p> | |||
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acknowledge the divine power of the Soul. in what place is
it therefore? I should think, in the head, and I could
give reasons to support my Opinion; but if you were to
ask not so particularly where is your Soul: I should answer
certainly within you. what is its Nature? peculiar to itself,
but suppose it igneous, suppose it breathable that is ——
nothing to our purpose, only attend to this: in the same manner
as you knew God, tho' you do not know his place or his ——
appearance: so you shou'd know your own Soul, tho' you
do not know its residence, nor external appearance. but
indeed we cannot doubt, except we are mere block heads in
Metaphysics, but that, the Soul is entirely free from —
gross particles, mixture, concretion, copulation, alloy
complexity, duplicity, whatsoever. and, being so, it can
neither be seperated, divided, torn asunder, or distracted,
nor therefore can it perish. for perishing is, as it were,
a seperation and disjunction of those parts of a body,
of which it was made up and Composed. Socrates, being
convinced by these and ——
like reasons of the immor=
=tality of the Soul, refused either to be patronized from
the laws by which he was condemned; or to humble himself
before the Judges, tho' he might have saved his life: but
armed himself with a noble inflexibility, which ——
proceeded not from pride, but greatness of Soul: and on
the last day of his life, he discoursed a good deal upon —
that very subject; and a few days before that, tho' he
might have easily got out of Custody, he would not: —
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Jeremy Bentham |
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