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 ers of it, and that not without some Fastuosity and Superciliousness, or at least some more sly and tacite contempt of such Philosophers as hold the contrary, as of Men less intellectual, and too too much indulging to their Imagination. Those other therefore because they so boldly affirm that a Spirit is Nullibi, that is to say, no where, have deservedly purchased to themselves the Name or Title of Nullibists.

The other Mound of Darkness laid upon the Nature of a Spirit, is by those who willingly indeed acknowledge that Spirits are somewhere; but add farther, That they are not only entirely or totally in their whole Ubi or Place, (in the most general sence of the Word) but are totally in every part or point thereof, and describe the peculiar Nature of a Spirit to be such, that it must be Totus in toto & totus in qualibet sui parte. Which therefore the Greeks would fitly and briefly call, an Essence that is all of it in each part, and this propriety thereof the Holenmerism of Incorporeal Beings. Whence also these other Philosophers diametrically opposite to the former, may most significantly and compendiously be called Holenmerians.

Opinions of both which kind of Philosophers having sufficiently Explained, we will now propose and confute the Reasons of each of them; and first of the Nullibists, of whom the chief Author and Leader seems to have been that pleasant Wit Renatus Des Cartes, who by his jocular Metaphysical Meditations, has so luxated and distorted the rational Faculties of some otherwise sober and quick-witted Persons, but in this point by reason of their over-great admiration of Des Cartes not sufficiently cautious, that deceived partly by his counterfeit and prestigious Subtilty, and partly by his Authority, have persuaded themselves that such things were most true and clear to them; which had they not been blinded with these Prejudices, they could never have thought to have been so much as possible, and so they having been so industriously taught, and diligently in-