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wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

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42 2 The Stoical Argume?itations Book 1.that <strong>is</strong> devoid <strong>of</strong> mind <strong>and</strong> reafon, can generate things nnimant <strong>and</strong> rational; but <strong>the</strong> ivorld generateth fuch, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>refore itfelf (cr that ivhich coU'tains it, <strong>and</strong> pre/ides over it) mujl Meeds he animant <strong>and</strong> rational, or intelletlual.Which argumentation <strong>is</strong> fur<strong>the</strong>r fet home by fuch fimilitudes as<strong>the</strong>fe ; 5/ ex oliva modulate canentes tibia; nafcerentivr, non dubitares, quinejjet in oliva tibicin<strong>is</strong> quadam fcientia. Sluid fi flatani fidiculas ferrent nti--mer<strong>of</strong>e fonantes, idem fcilicet cenferes in platan<strong>is</strong> inejfe muficam. Cur igiturtnundus non animans faj ienfqae judicetur, cum ex fe prccreet animantes atquefapientes? If from <strong>the</strong> olive-tree fliould be produced pipes founding harmonicufly,cr from <strong>the</strong> plain-tree fiddles, playing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir o-wn aciord mufic<strong>all</strong>y, itinould not at <strong>all</strong> be doubted, but that <strong>the</strong>re was fame mufical, ei<strong>the</strong>r ikill ornature, in th<strong>of</strong>e trees <strong>the</strong>mf'lves : why <strong>the</strong>refore fhould not <strong>the</strong> world be concludedto be both animant <strong>and</strong> wife (or to have fomething in it which <strong>is</strong> fo) finccit froducelh fuch beings from itfelf? And though perhaps fome may thinkthat <strong>of</strong> Cottars here to have been a fmart <strong>and</strong> witty repartee', ^u^erit Socrates^f'de animam arripuerimus,ft nulla fuerit in mundo? Et ego quaro, undeorationem ? unde numeros ? unde cant us ? nif verb loqui fclem cum lunaputemus,cum proprius accejjerit: aut ad harmoniam canere mundun:, ?

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