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 between Man and Beat: ome Philoophers have even advanced, that there is a greater Difference between ome Men and ome others, than between ome Men and ome Beats; it is not therefore o much the Undertanding that contitutes, among Animals, the pecifical Ditinction of Man, as his Quality of a free Agent. Nature peaks to all Animals, and Beats obey her Voice. Man feels the ame Impreion, but he at the ame time perceives that he is free to reit or to acquiece; and it is in the Conciounes of this Liberty, that the Spirituality of his Soul chiefly appears: for Natural Philoophy explains, in ome meaure, the Mechanim of the Senes and the Formation of Ideas; but in the Power of willing, or rather of chuing, and in the Conciounes of this Power, nothing can be dicovered but Acts, that are purely piritual, and cannot be accounted for by the Laws of Mechanics.