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SECT VII. Of the Immortality of the Soul, and the Original of the Jews.
THese Oracles of Reason have nothing re∣markable from p. 106 to p. 116. save on∣ly this, That he borrows whole pages, without any acknowledgment. The Epistle to Mr. Wil∣wood is a translation out of Gassendus third and fourth Chapters of the third part Syntag. Epic. Philos. his Treatise of Beneficence to Madam; and his preference of Plato and Pythagoras to Aristotle, are either purely Moral, or else ground∣ed on the Sentiments of those Philosophers, with whom we have no mind to contest at present, about those Points of Fate and Fortune.
Pag. 117. Your incomparable Version of that passage of Seneca, where he begins with—Post mortem nihil est, ipsa & mors nihil: There is nothing after death, and Death it self is no∣thing.
And pag. 128. he says, This is Seneca's Opi∣nion.