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# Title: A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 3; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 3)
# Folio 27, page id 797937889:0039
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che Justice, and sire him aI the saristaction d
can, LBall exanine the Subltance ot Whae he
has Objected againte Mr. Loces AMercion, Wich.
Out entring Farcher inro ihe Dispuce chan may
Terve ro shen Whecher ic is of ary Conlequence
For, Or asainst che lmmorralier ot che Sors.
Mr. Lock CaYS, Men do not thinte in soundStee
andhiskealon is, becaule chey are norC onscionsot
Ic, and eis a Coreradlietion eo lay a Man CBIUHS,
bue is noc Conscions ot ic; rhintins consilcine in
char very chins et our beinsconscious ot il. sp.
On which Suppolition, che Remartiei cannot mate
ont any certain Proofof the Immortality of the Soul.
I(uppole Mr. Lock did noc delisn it a Proot
otche Immorraliey ot chesoul, bur lec us see
Whecher ic weakrens any Proot oF ic, wtich
the Remarker Phouid have Mewn, buc instead
et chat provoles Disticulties, Which that Surpo-
Ccion involres him in, and begins with chisNo
table onc, l monder hon vou can observe tbat jour
Soul sometimes does not thine, for when yon do ob-
serve it, son thinte If a Man conla chine, and not
thint. at the same time, he miehe be able 10 mato
this Observation. This revers d, may bc an Ar-
ument oF lome Force indecd. bur to conclude
chac my Soul doconor aluarsthint, tis luffici-
ene tobnow that chere has lome rime palt in
which I Was not Conscious chat Ithovoht; un-
dess we will allor chac thesont may chinkc, nhen
the Mon does not, irhich is plainly eo matce
Ehem to Persons, a5 MIr. Lock has Pewn F P
44, and 45. in which che Remarker Cays he umanrno
does nor understand irhat that discourse abont the
denity, ornon Ldenity of the same Main, Nsepine  Ist. R.
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and about Cactor and POiux, aims at, P. Lc.
and tends r0. A Dilcuurse aboue ehe non- Ide.
nitys of the same Man, world. L contels, be ve-
ry hard eo undericand; but I Ind no Tuch in
that vlace, or any ocher oFMT. LockS L HaY;
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