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Rh only. However, he was not believ'd this Time on his bare Word; the Adventure of the Cruade having a little unk the Credit of his Oracles. Afterwards a thouand Schoolmen aroe, uch as the irrefragable Doctor; the ubtil Doctor, the angelic Doctor , the eraphic Doctor , and the cherubic Doctor, who were all ure that they had a very clear and ditint Idea of the Soul, and yet wrote in uch a Manner, that one would conclude they were refolv'd no one hould undertand a Word in their Writings. Our Des Cartes, born to dicover the Errors of Antiquity, and at the ame Time to ubtitute his own; and hurried away by that ytematic Spirit which throws a Cloud over the Minds of the greatet Men, thought he had demontrated that the Soul is the ame Thing as Thought, in the ame Manner as Matter, in his Opinion, is the ame as Extenion. He aerted, that Man thinks eternally, and that the Rh