If Humane Souls have a Being after Death, which way has the Air made Room for them from all Eternity ? Pray how has the Earth been Capacious enough to receive all the Bodies buried in't ? The Resolution of this latter Question will satisfy the former. For as a Corps after some continuance turns into Dust, and makes way for another; So when a Man dies, and the Spirit is let loose into the Air it holds out for some time, after which it wears off and drops in Pieces. And when Things come to this Pass, 'tis either Renew'd, and Lighted up into another Soul; ⁹ or else absorb'd into that of the Universe; And thus they make room for Succession. And this may serve for an answer upon the Supposition of the Souls surviving the Body. Besides, We are not only to consider the vast number of Bodies dispos'd of in the manner above mentioned; but what an infinite are every Day devour'd by Mankind, and other Living Creatures, and as it were buried in their Stomachs; And yet by the Transmutation of the Food into Blood and Humours, and by the Conveyance of Perspiration, there's Stowage enough. And now which way can a Man take a Prospect of the Truth, and trace the History of Nature? Why in order to this, you must divide the Thing in Question, into Matter, and Form.¹⁰