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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)
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Besides (P. 175 BC) Y am neterWV at a loss Yst. R. P. 9
hom 1otrame anv Idea of a Dead SoUL, or 2d. R. P. 16
os a Spirit mithout Zise or Thonchrs. FTOW a
Fead Soul comes in here, ldon FKnON
Can there be no Lite, Where there is no
ThouehE: Icontels that l’have hitherto
thoughe thac Inseets and Planes hare Litc,
tho Idid nor supvose chat chey do alrays
think. HTC gOCS On: What is tise Soul mhen
stre does not thinte: She must be actnally some-
thins is se exist: She must then have some
Proverties, whereby se is distinenisted from
nothino, and frommatier. And asain, In
thesecond RemarK, Tou say the Sout has no P. 24.
Eatension, nor at certain fits any Cocitation:
What ean the sont be then but a certain
Pover actine in the Body, wben the Body is
prepar dfor the exercise of it; and ceasime to
act when the Body is indispos d. Forrhich I
antver, That it is true, re have no Idca
OF the Soul bue by her ODerationS; DUE
that is no moro a tealon to conclude that
se is nothins nhen MC does nOt operate,
than when Medoes, since me are equalsis
ienorant Wrhac the soul is, rheu we do
Fhirk. a5 When irc do not. Iask What is
the Sont wrtien Me does think. IS Me a
real permanent Cubstance: What chen
are her peculiar properties, Whereby Me
is distinouisd From ocher substances : IF
it De Caid the porrer oE chinkins, I asH
Whether Me has ans other Properries to
distinguista her trom Nochins, and from
MaLter  IEnOF, Then Nothing, Or Matter;
mashare the Porrer ot thinkins. This is
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