Grice:
"Russell is pretentious; Bradley, an English angel, is not!"
"Bradley can use 'thatness' freely; Russell uses it after Bradley and artificially."
all the rest of the watery bulk : but return back those few drops from whence they were taken, and the glass-full that even now had an individuation by itself, loseth that, and groweth one and the same with the other main stock : yet if you fill your glass again, wheresoever you take it up, so it be of the same uniform bulk of water you had before, it is the same glassfuU of water that you had. But as I said before, this example fitteth entirely no more than the other did. In such abstracted speculations, where we must consider matter without form, (which hath no actual being,) we must not expect adequated examples in nature. But enough is said to make a speculative man see, that if God should join the soul of a lately dead man, (even whilst his dead corpse should lie en- tire in his windingsheet here,) unto a body made of earth, taken from some mountain in America; it were most true and certain, that the body he should then live by, were the same identical body he lived with before his death, and late resurrection. It is evident, that sameness, thisness, and that- ness, belongeth not to matter by itself, (for a general indiffer- ence runneth through it all,) but only as it is distinguished and individuated by the form. Which in our case, whensoever the same soul doth, it must be understood always to be the same matter and body.
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