But would any one say of us, who do exist, that we want horns or wings?
Certainly not.

Should it be asked, why not?
the answer would be, that not to have what neither custom nor nature has fitted you for would not imply a want of them, even though you were sensible that you had them not.

This argument should be pressed over and over again, after that point has once been established, which, if souls are mortal, there can be no dispute about--I mean, that the destruction of them by death is so entire as to remove even the least suspicion of any sense remaining.

When, therefore, this point is once well grounded and established, we must correctly define what the term to want means; that there may be no mistake in the word.

To want, then, signifies this: to be without that which you would be glad to have; for inclination for a thing is implied in the word want, excepting when we use the word in an entirely different sense, as we do when we say that a fever is wanting to any one.