An essay on matter  In five chapters. [Eight lines from Pope].

A friendly conference between matter and spirit , In the Characters of Somebody and Nobody: being A compleat Illustration of a learned, elegant, and instructive Treatise, entitled, An Essay on Spirit.

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An essay on matter In five chapters. [Eight lines from Pope].

A friendly conference between matter and spirit , In the Characters of Somebody and Nobody: being A compleat Illustration of a learned, elegant, and instructive Treatise, entitled, An Essay on Spirit.