(seq. 15)

of Reason

World by the united exertions of their Souls, and bodies;
and since the Soul is possessed of existence in this
life, and does not seperate, illegible rove, or move
from the body till Death, we infer, that it
resides there till that period, illegible
and is by nature a real substance and is propagated
by natural generation with the body; as the apparent
simularity of the genius of Children to their parents
and near relations may witness, and though an ani-
mal body is necessary in order to its propagation and
continuance in this life, or mode of being, yet it is not
essential to be continued with Soul during its exis-
tence, for if so, the Soul could not survive the body,
which will be farther considered in its proper place.
Was it not that the Soul was of some mysterious substance
or other (to us,) it could not have be propagated with,
and united to the body, or seperated from it at Death.
To be seperated from the body or leave it, seems to us the
same as to move from the wreck of the body, which
without real substance it could not do. And though the
Substance of the Soul and its motion from the body at
Death, to the region or place of its destined retribution,
is to the survivers in life imperceptible, yet as the same
Soul occupied the body in life (in an imperceptible manner) as before argued, it must
occupy space in its premised passage to its place of
retribution, and at that place, and in all places of its
existence it must occupy space.

From hence we infer,
that had not the Soul been illegible resident in the body in this
life, it could not (have been) be have been seperated from it at death;

and