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ESSAY
TOWARD THE
[SEC7.I,
ing
being,
has ceased
to exist,
it
is
impossible
that
it
should retain any memory
of
former actions,
since
itself
began to
be
but
in
the moment
of
the
resurrection.
The
doctrine of
rewarding or punishing
the
same soul
or intel-
ligent nature,
which
did good
or
evil
in
this
life,
neces-
sarily
requires that
the same
soul,
or intelligent
nature,
should have
a
continue& and
uninterrupted
existence,
that
so
the same conscious
being, which did good
or
evil, may be
rewarded
or
punished:.
IL
Those,
who
suppose
the
soul
of
man to havé
a
real
distinct existence
when
the
body
dies,
but
only
to
fall
into
a
estate
of
slumber,
without
consciousness
or
activity, must,
I
think, suppose this soul
to
be
material,
that
is,
an extended and
solid
substance.
If
they
suppose
it to
be
inextended, or
to
have no
parts
or
quantity,
I
confess
I
have
no
manner
of
idea
of
the.
existence, or possibility
of
such an
inextended
being,
without cónsciousness or active
power,
nor
do
they pre
-
tend to have any
such idea,
as I
ever heard, and therefore
they generally
grant
it to
be
extended.
But
if
they imagine
the
soul to be
extended,
it
must
either
have
something more
of
solidity
or
density than
mere
empty space,
or
it must
be
quite
as
unsolid
and
thin
as space itself
:
Let
us
consider both
these.
If
it
be
as
thin
and subtile
as
mere empty
space,
yet
while
it
is
active and conscious,
I
own
it must
have a
proper
ex-
istence;
but
if it
once
begin to sleep,
and
drop,all
con -
sciousness
and activity, I
have no
other idea
of
it,
but the
same which
I
have
of
empty space
:
and
that
I
conceive
to
be
mere nothing,
though it
impose
upon
us with
the
appearance of
some
sort of
properties.
If
they
allow
the
soul to have any,
the
least, degree
of
density above what
belongs to
empty space,
this
is
soli-
dity
in
the philosophic
sense
of
the
word.,
and then
it is
solid extension,
which
I
call
matter
;
and a
material
being
may
indeed
be
laid asleep
;
that
is,
it
may cease to
have
any
motion
in its
parts
;
but motion
is
not
consci-
ousness
:
And
how
'either
solid
or
unsolid extension,
either
space
or matter,
can have
any
consciousness
or
thought
belonging
to any
part of
it,
or spread through the
whole
of
it, I know
not;
or what any
sort
of
extension
can
do
toward
thought
or consciousness,
I .confess
I
l
erstand
not;
nor
van
i
frame any more an
idea
-of
it,