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poet_n and_o then_o when_o we_o have_v peruse_v what_o the_o height_n and_o elegancy_n of_o their_o fancy_n have_v pen_v down_o to_o write_v under_o it_o a_o obscure_a subindication_n of_o the_o transcendent_a pulcritude_n of_o the_o aerial_a genii_n whether_o nymph_n or_o hero_n for_o though_o there_o be_v neither_o lust_n nor_o difference_n of_o sex_n among_o they_o whence_o the_o kind_a commotion_n of_o mind_n will_v never_o be_v any_o thing_n else_o but_o a_o exercise_n of_o intellectual_a love_n who_o object_n be_v virtue_n and_o beauty_n yet_o it_o be_v not_o improbable_a but_o that_o there_o be_v some_o general_a stricture_n of_o discrimination_n of_o this_o beauty_n into_o masculine_a and_o feminine_a partly_o because_o the_o temper_n of_o their_o vehicles_n may_v incline_v to_o this_o kind_n of_o pulcritude_n rather_o than_o that_o and_o partly_o because_o several_a of_o these_o aerial_a spirit_n have_v sustain_v the_o difference_n of_o sex_n in_o this_o life_n some_o of_o 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when_o he_o come_v into_o the_o other_o world_n convince_a and_o confound_v the_o idle_a and_o vainglorious_a sophist_n wherever_o he_o go_v and_o by_o the_o same_o reason_n platonist_n aristotelian_o stoic_n epicurean_o and_o whatever_o other_o sect_n and_o humour_n be_v on_o the_o earth_n may_v in_o likelihood_n be_v meet_v with_o there_o so_o far_o as_o that_o estate_n will_v permit_v though_o they_o can_v doubt_v of_o all_o thing_n we_o doubt_v of_o here_o for_o these_o aerial_a spirit_n know_v that_o themselves_o be_v and_o that_o the_o soul_n of_o man_n subsist_v and_o act_v after_o death_n unless_o such_o as_o be_v too_o deep_o tincture_v with_o avenroism_n but_o they_o may_v doubt_v whether_o they_o will_v hold_v out_o for_o ever_o or_o whether_o they_o will_v perish_v at_o the_o conflagration_n of_o the_o world_n as_o the_o stoic_n will_v have_v they_o it_o may_v be_v also_o a_o great_a controversy_n among_o they_o whether_o pythagoras_n or_o ptolemy_n hypothesis_n be_v true_a 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