the moſt poſitive Terms, what the Soul of Man is; but as theſe abſolutely knew nothing about it, they might very well be allow'd to differ entirely in opinion from one another.
In Greece, the infant Seat of Arts and of Errors, and where the Grandeur as well as Folly of the human Mind went ſuch prodigious Lengths, the People us'd to reaſon about the Soul in the very ſame Manner as we do.
The divine Anaxagoras, in whoſe Honour an Altar was erected, for his having taught Mankind that the Sun was greater than Peloponneſus, that Snow was black, and that the Heavens were of Stone; affirm'd that the Soul was an aerial Spirit, but at the ſme Time immortal. Diogenes, (not he who was a cynical Philoſopher after having coyn'd baſe Money) declar'd that the Soul was a Portion of the Subſtance of God; an Idea which we muſt confeſs was very ſublime. Epicurus maintain'd that it was compos'd of Parts in the ſame Manner as the Body.
