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Either There Are No Corporeal Substances, And Bodies Are Merely Phenomena Which Are True Or Consistent With Each Other, Such As A Rainbow Or A Perfectly Coherent Dream, Or There Is In All Corporeal Substances Something Analogous To The Soul.

We May Say, That Not Only The Soul (the Mirror Of An Indestructible Universe) Is Indestructible, But Also The Animal Itself Is, Although Its Mechanism Is Frequently Destroyed In Parts.

If You Have A Clear Idea Of A Soul, You Will Have A Clear Idea Of A Form; For It Is Of The Same Genus, Though A Different Species.

Our Reasonings Are Grounded Upon Two Great Principles, That Of Contradiction, In Virtue Of Which We Judge False That Which Involves A Contradiction, And True That Which Is Opposed Or Contradictory To The False.

Let There Be Two Possible Things, A And B, One Of Which Is Such That It Is Necessary That It Exists, And Let Us Assume That There Is More Perfection In A Than In B. Then, At Least, We Can Explain Why A Should Exist Rather Than B And Can Foresee Which Of Them Will Exist; Indeed, This Can Be Demonstrated, That Is, Rendered Certain From The Nature Of The Thing.