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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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C
oreceded that Position; it Peems more Ra-
tional, and Natural; in the isporance
Men are oF mhar the Soul is, frA to enquire
Whether thac Porver ot Cogitation which
ther perceire in themlelres may noc De
communicated to Matter; anditcher finc
no contradiction in ic, (and upon thac
chink he to determine ot the nature ot a
chins, Which thes cannot certainly knoi)
thence toconclude, that the soul is not a
Substance distinet From Matter. Buthorr-
soerer that be, it cannot De concluded,
thac chole nho make this Ouection g0 up-
On a Suppolition That thesont is not a distinct
permanant substance, wrhichis the Principle
the Remarker mond hare supposd tobe
MT. Locks; The Ouestion, a5 MT. Lock
makes iC, is nOt Whether our Cocitations are
the operations of Cod, or of Matier: DuE
Whether Cod has siren the Porer ot CO.
sitation to a Material, Or an Immarerial
substance, and wrhich ay foerer this Oue-
Aion is resolred, thesoul must equally Dc
Cupposd a distinct permanent substance; toe
a Material Substance iS nOF lels a Substance
than an Immaterial.
But the Fallacy by which thac suppos
tion, That the Sont is noi a distinet permanent
Substance, i5 imputed to MT. Lock, VPOn
his doubrins whether chesoul may not be
Material, lies in this, thac suppolins the
Soul not to De a Substance distinet trom
Marcer, is taken for the Pane chins, a5
supposins it not to be distinet trom the
Body, rrhicti are rers differene supposi-
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