The philosophical dictionary, comprising the opinions of all the best writers on moral, political and theological subjects ... who have written in favour of the liberties and happiness of mankind / [Anon].

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1822
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    — on BEA he not often out, and does he ideas ? melancholy, and with eager read it with apparent joy. You vhence infer, that I have felt pain Make, then, the like inference But ‘the ‘seholastic “tts fibres, of circulating it, of un- . folding . the: buds ‘of -its: leaves BEA me what the-sonl of a tree is? It has received these properties, @ certain number of ideas. Who formed all those properties, who has imparted all these faculties ? He who causes the grass of the field to grow, and the earth to gravitate towards the sun, The ee 4 : and the Sorbonne. beasts are material, cry other philosophers; but as little to the purpose as the former. When called upon to define a material soul, they only perplex the cause: they must necessarily allow it to be sensitive matter. But from whence does it derive soul; which must mean, that it is matter giving sensation to have nothing to say. According to others equally wise, the soul of beasts is a spiritual essence dying with the body : but where are your proofs? What ideahave you ‘of this spiritual which, with its sensation, me- combinations, will never be able six years? What grounds have you to think thatthis incorporeal being dies Bui still more stupid are they who affirm this soul to By spirit we can mean only some thing. unknown, which is’ not body; the soul of beasts, there- fore, according to this system, is_ neither body, ‘nor something