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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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plain, IFthe sout has no Fsential PFOPer.
ties distinet trom Matter, Wherels Me
alone is capable of the Pover ot Thintins
there cau De no reaton ertiy Macter may
noc hare that Pover. It it DC Taic MC has
other Fssentiai Properties, mithout rhich
MC cond nor have the porer oe thinkine,
When the Remarker Bas Found out WhaE
those Proverties arc, hewill then LuOW
Wiat the SouLIs, Wrhen IlIC ClOCONOE LHIMK;
For irtraterer thac Substance is, chathas
theporver ot chinkins, there is no reaton
L donBt thot it remains the lame, erhen
it OEaCOS Trom thaE action, anY more THAM
chere iS t0 doiBE thar a Bod; in motion,
anet aE relt, is the Pare SuDIEONCOZ FOT We
trave no elearer Idea ot the Substance ot
Body, than ve hare ot the SuDItaMCO OF
pirit, a5MT. LockhasBenn Wrhich EX
cellent Discourie alone onc roud hare
choushe sufticient eo prevent the least in-
Tinuatior, inat he doco nor think the Soul
a real perrmanent Substance.
There ismuch more reason to conclude,
That ehose, cio not think the Soul a real
permanent Substance, who make this
mection, IF the Soul has no Fxtension,
nOr at certain tits anY Cocitation, WhaL
can ehe Soui Be Then, but a certain Porver
acins in the Body, Wrhen the Body is pro-
Dar d e0. For From Wrtrat other Reason
can ther make it? IF thesoul Dc realy
Tomethins else thon a cercain Porver actine
in the Bodr, irhat can hinder it From De-
ins che same chins nhen it does nat aet e
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