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PASCAL PAOLI,

General of the Corsicans.

Engravd from the Original Painting.

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Letters to, and Proceedings of, the
Benevolent Society

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Foreign Affairs

Latin Verfion of a Simile in Addifon's

Campaign

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ibid.

Promotions Civil and Military ibid.
Stocks, Grain, Wind, and Weather 226

With a fine PORTRAIT of that great Patriot

PASCAL PAOLI, GENERAL OF THE BRAVE CORSICAN S, Engraved by MILLER, from Mr. C. BowLES's Mezzotinto.

LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, at No. 47, in Pater-nofter Row ; Of whom may be had, compleat Sets, from the Year 1732, to this time, neatly bound or fitched, or any fingle Month to complete Sets.

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CHARLES CORBETT, at No. 30, facing St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street, STOCK-BROKER, who buys and fells in the Stocks by Commiffion, and tranfacts the Lottery Bufinefs as ufual.

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THE

LONDON MAGAZINE,

For

MAY, 1769.

To the Author of a Defence of Mr. Locke's
Opinion concerning Perfonal Identity;
in Answer to the firfi Part of a late
Elay on that Subječt.
SIR,

N your defence of Mr. Locke's opinion of perI fonal identity, you, Yap in (p. 39.) condemn his definition of the word perfon. This to me feems very unaccountable, who am not able to conceive how Mr. Locke's opinion of perfonal identity can be right, if his opinion of perfon be wrong. According to you, Mr. Locke's opinion of perfonal identity is an opinion of the identity of what is not a perfon: you neverthelefs call yourself a defender of Mr. Locke's opinion of perfonal identity against an antagonist whofe very ingerious and fubtle arguments are levelled at Mr. Locke's opinion of the identity of what Mr. Locke calls a perfon.

In the appendix to your defence, you tell us that the word perfon, accord. ing to the received fenfe in all claffical authors, ftands for a guife, charac. ter, quality, mafk. But, alas! perfon, according to this definition, will not anfwer your purpose, for none of thefe things have confcioufnefs. Permit me to advise you to be reconciled to your friend, who calls that invifible being a perfon, of which perfon or guife is only a fign. The figure is very commonly used by which we call the thing fignified by name of its character or fign. Thus Mr. Locke defines perfon to be a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason, reflection, &c. And it is the opiion of this great man that the identity of this being confifts in confcioufnefs. But against this opinion there lies a mighty objection. Every perfon finds, by experience, that his confcioufnels undergoes a perpetual change; now

whatever fuffers a change, becomes, a different thing from what it was. Confequently, if perfonal identity confifts in confcioufnefs, this identity confifts in what does not remain the fame; or, in other words, perfonal identity confifts in diverfity. How different from this opinion of Mr. Locke was that of the author of pfalm 102, who addreffing the Creator of the univerfe, thus expreffes himself. "Thou, Lord, in the beginning haft laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of the hands. They fhall perish, but thou shalt endure; they all fhall wax old as doth a garment, and as a vesture fhalt thou change them, and they shall be changed, but thou art the fame." Here we find an infpired writer declaring the identity of the fupreme Spirit to confift in immutability.

In p. 22 of your defence you quote from the minute philofopher what the author calls a demonftration against Locke's opinion. This famous demonftration is, you fay, egregious, trifling, and may fafely be trufted with the reader. I readily agree with Bishop Berkeley, that what he calls a demonftration against Locke, really is fuch. I readily agree with you, that this demonftration may fafely be trufted with the reader; let me add, that it would be very unfafe for you to attempt to anfwer it.

It was a favourite tenet of Mr. Locke, that the foul does not always think, and this opinion you likewise undertake to patronize; but it may be asked how you can reconcile this doctrine with what you advance at the foot of p. 32? where I find this affertion, Time unperceived is no time, abfolute time is a mere fillion. I will take it for granted that, when the foul perceives time, it thinks; but, accord ing to you, there is no time, unless the

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