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   Re: I buy small claims and civil judgmen   
   15 Jan 08 23:11:44   
   
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   From: Nospam@NOSPAMTHANKS.NET   
      
   mind. And in speaking of minds, they consider them as in a place,   
   and attribute to them movement from one place to another; and these are   
   qualities which belong only to bodies.   
      
   Instead of receiving the ideas of these things in their purity, we colour   
   them with our own qualities, and stamp with our composite being all the   
   simple things which we contemplate.   
      
   Who would not think, seeing us compose all things of mind and body, but that   
   this mixture would be quite intelligible to us? Yet it is the very thing we   
   least understand. Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for   
   he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least   
   of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of   
   his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. Modus quo corporibus   
   adhaerent spiritus comprehendi ab hominibus non potest, et hoc tamen homo   
   est.7 Finally, to complete the proof of our weakness, I shall conclude with   
   these two considerations...   
      
   73. But perhaps this subject goes beyond the capacity of reason. Let us   
   therefore examine her solutions to problems within her powers. If there be   
   anything to which her own interest must have made her apply herself most   
   seriously, it is the inquiry into her own sovereign good. Let us see, then,   
   wherein these strong and clear-sighted souls have placed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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