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Rh its primary cause in the ; and that, since cause and effect are one, and incapable of separation, therefore these three, viz. the body, or the effect,—the soul or spirit, or the instrumental cause,—the, or the primary cause,—are in continual close connection with each other in every human being, insomuch that the first cannot subsist for a moment without the other two; neither hath it any power, appetite, sensation, or operation, but what it derives from the other two.

For the material body, considered in itself, or separate from its soul, and thus separate from the, is a mere lump of inanimate matter, and is consequently as incapable of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling, as a stone, or any other mass