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MG-A(G.757.006
21 Apr 1757:11 (624)
The World.
There was an ancient sect of Philosophers, the disciples of
Pythagoras, who held, that the souls of men and all other
animals existed in a state of perpetual transmigration; and
that, when by death they were dislodged from one corporeal
habitation, they were immediately reinstated in another,
happier or more miserable, according to their behaviour in
the former: So that when any person made his exit from the
stage of this world, he was supposed only to retire behind
the scenes to be new dressed, and to have had a new part
assigned him, more or less agreeable, in proportion to the
merit of his performance in the last. . .
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