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96 Aristotle who has been explain'd a thouand Ways, becaue he is unintelligible, was of Opinion, according to ome of his Diciples, that the Undertanding in all Men is one and the ane Subtance. divine Plato, Mater of the divine Aritotle, and the divine Socrates Mater of the divine Plato, us'd to ay that the Soul was corporeal and eternal. No doubt but the Demon of Socrates had intructed him in the Nature of it. Some People, indeed, pretend, that a Man who boated his being attended by a familiar Genius mut infallibly be either a Knave or a Madman, but this kind of People are eldom atisfied with any Thing but Reaon. regard to the Fathers of the Church, everal in the primitive Ages believ'd that the Soul was human, and the Angels and God corporeal. Men naturally improve upon every Sytem. St. Bernard, as Father Mabillon confees, taught that the Soul after Death does not ee God in the celetial Regions, but converes with Chrit's human ture

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