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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ...ii. p. t£. De Occitlt. Vivend. t. ii. p. 1130 f De Anima Mundi, near the end. Ns "the the metempsychosis was merely taught to deceive the people;" so that the excepted Socrates is again added to the body of philosophers, who with one voice rejected the ftfble. There never was any opinion which (notwithstanding the contention and rivalry of various schools) had so general a concurrence as the disbelief of a future conscious existence.. Democritus and the Epicureans thought, that the dissolution of the body concluded the consciousness of the foul; Dicæarchus, that though it participated of ( the divinity, it was mortal: Cebes t, that it perished with the body, and evaporated like air; which was also the opinion and allusion of Marcus J Antonius: Polybius §, Aristotle j, Epicharmus f, Pliny, Sextus t Plut. t. ii. p. 904. + Plato Phædon, t. i. p. 70. % L. ii. p. 10. § L. xvi. De Mor. 1. iii. C. vi. Cicero Tusc. Quæst., 1. i. t. iv. p. 117. Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. lv., + Adv. Math. p. 57. Empiricus, Empiricus, declared their belief of its mortality; and Seneca represents a thought of the foul surviving the body to a dream that fled on waking. Cicero's opinion on this point has been questioned by Middleton; Bayle never thought the doubt could occur; however, there can be no question, but Cicero affirms, that the disbelief of a future state, was the contempt of all the learned t. Locke truly fays, " that J "the dead shall rife and live again, and the "like, being beyond the discovery of reason, ' are purely matter of faith with which Epist. cit. + Catervæ veniunt contra dicentium non solum EpU curorum, quos equidem non despicio, fed nescio quomodo doctissimus quisq. contemnit. % Hum,...
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