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vi ; consequently that it possesses no life properly and independently its own.

The present work on the human body may be regarded as a continuation of the foregoing one, and as an additional proof of the astonishing properties with which the soul of man is gifted by its. For my principal design in this work is to show, that all the appetites, sensations, motions, and operations of the body, and even all its forms, are from the soul, and not from the body; consequently that they designate mental affections and powers, and were intended thus to conduct man to the knowledge of that invisible substance and form, called soul, by which his body is animated; and, at the same time, to an acquaintance with that, by whom this substance and