And as the general quality of meat-roasting, with its several modifications, does not inhere in any one part of the jack, so neither does consciousness, with its several modes of sensation, intellection, volition, &c., inhere in any one, but is the result from the mechanical composition of the whole animal." And then, in regard to the _second_ difficulty: "The parts," say they, "of an animal body are perpetually changed, ...

from whence it will follow that the idea of individual consciousness must be constantly translated from one particle of matter to another....

We answer, this is only a fallacy of the imagination.

They make a great noise about this _individuality_, how a man is conscious to himself that he is the same individual he was twenty years ago, notwithstanding the flux state of the particles of matter that compose his body.

We think this is capable of a very plain answer, and may be easily illustrated by a familiar example.