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Rh the mot poitive Terms, what the Soul of Man is; but as thee abolutely knew nothing about it, they might very well be allow'd to differ entirely in opinion from one another. Greece, the infant Seat of Arts and of Errors, and where the Grandeur as well as Folly of the human Mind went uch prodigious Lengths, the People us'd to reaon about the Soul in the very ame Manner as we do. divine Anaxagoras, in whoe Honour an Altar was erected, for his having taught Mankind that the Sun was greater than Peloponneus, that Snow was black, and that the Heavens were of Stone; affirm'd that the Soul was an aerial Spirit, but at the me Time immortal. Diogenes, (not he who was a cynical Philoopher after having coyn'd bae Money) declar'd that the Soul was a Portion of the Subtance of God; an Idea which we mut confes was very ublime. Epicurus maintain'd that it was compos'd of Parts in the ame Manner as the Body.