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 I am not the same thing, but many different things. To insist on absolute simplicity of nature as essential to individuality, would be to destroy all individuality: for it would lead to the supposition of as many distinct individuals, as there are thoughts, feelings, actions, and properties in the same being. Every thought would be a separate consciousness; every organ a different system. Each thought is a distinct thing in nature; and many of my thoughts must more nearly resemble the thoughts of others than they do my own sensations, which nevertheless are considered as a part of the same being. As to the continued identity of the