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that, yet in the rough way of the Cynics, bid his friends throw
him any where without burial: what would you be devoured
by Ravenous birds and beasts, said they? "no, says he, lay
"a Stick by my side, that I may drive them away" how
"can you, said they, for you will have neither feeling nor
thought. "how then will the beasts hurt me (says she) when
"I cannot feel". it was an excellent saying of Anagoras;
who when he was on his death bed at Lampsacus, being
asked by his friends, whether if he shoud die there he
would be carryed to his own Country Clazomene: "it does
"not signify, says he,; the journey to the other world is as
"long from one place as another". there is one thing in
particular to be observed of Burial; that is, that That only
pertains to the body, whether the Soul perishes or flourishes.
besides it is Evident, that when the Soul is fled from
Identifier: | JB/537/116/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537. |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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