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a being we may infer, that intelligent creatures have
been intersperced co-eval and co-extensive with it.

Thus far we reason on the ple-
nitude of finite intelligent agents, from principles
of (almost) the highest moral certainty, but when we reflect on
the temperatures of those Worlds, situated, or moving
in the boundless expanse of heaven, and on the ama-
zing diversity that is possible to subsist between the
specific orders of intelligent (beings) who Inhabit them their
various modes of existence (inconceivable to us,) their with their
diverse organization and interchangable methods
of sociability, we are lost in conjecture and admira-
tion, of other body illegible and readily perceive that
our faculties of sensation and reflection, are very
inadequate to conceive of the specific and intrinsic
difference that there is, or may be, in (the) universal entity
of either natural or moral beings.

We mortals who by nature
have but five senses, know not but that there may
be in the eternal and infinite creation and provi-
dence of God, a greater diversity of sorts of senses, and
consequently of sensations of different objects, that
we are able to innumerate, by which the specific,
or distinct orders of intelligent agents in the univer(se)
may obtain the Idea of equally numerous and
distinct kinds of entity, of which we with our
five senses can make no discovery, any more
that a man born blind could of colours.

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