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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 17, cont. (p.43) |
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pany. I can allow my self to be Animal socia- le, appliable to my company, but not gregale, to herd my self in every troup. It is not per- fectly true which very subtil, yet very deep wit Averroes says, that all mankinde hath but one soul, which informes and rules us all, as one Intelligence doth the firmament and all the Starres in it; as though a parti- cular body were too little an organ for a soul to play upon. And it is as imperfect which is taught by that religion wch is most accommodate to sense (I dare not say to rea- son (though it have appearance of that too) because none may doubt but that that reli- gion is certainly best, which is reasonablest) That all mankinde hath one protecting Angel; all Christians one other, all English one other, all of one Corporation and every civill coagulation or society one other; and every man one other. Though both these opinions expresse a truth; which is, that mankinde hath very strong bounds to co- habit and concurre in other then moun- tains and hills during his life. First, com- [CW: mon,] |
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