A N T I E N 



METAPHYSICS. 



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BOOK I. 



CHAP. I. 



Of the fuhjeB of Metaphyfics — All Things in Nature either Body or 

 jVlmd — SubjeB of Phyfics is Body joined ivith Mind — Siihjedl of 

 Metaphyfics is Mind by it/elf 



Etaphysics is a fcience fo abftrufe, and fo remote from com- 

 mon apprehenfion, that even the fubjed of it is not ealily 

 underftood by thofe who are not accuftomed to abilrad thinking. 

 And, accordingly, I obferve, that Ariilotle, in more than one paflagc 

 of his metaphyfics, has been at great pains to explain what his fub- 

 jecl is, and, for that pnrpofe, has n.ade feveral nice difiinaions, of 

 which I wll not take notice at prefent ; but w^ill fet out with one 

 which ^s obvious, and made by every one j 1 mean the diOinaion be- 

 twixt body and ndnd -, and which, at the fame time, is mod compre- 

 henfive; for every thing in nature is either body or mind, or their ac- 



A cidents. 



