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CONTENTS. 



feveral Minds are connedled together — The Human Mind begins where that of the 

 Brute leaves off, the comparative Faculty— This is the Foundation of the Intelle£lual 

 Mind — By it Ideas are formed — Progrefs of that Formation — Ideas, a fimpie Percep- 

 tion of the Intellect— But complex Perception neceflary — The Nature of it, and of 

 the Difcurjui Mentis — The Conclufion of that Procefs, either Science or Opinion—' 

 Difference betwixt the two— The laft Operation of the Intelka, that by which it re- 

 cognizes itfclf Page 99 



CHAP. vir. 



Philofophy of the Human Mind founded upon the preceding Hiflory of it — Single and 

 complex Apprehenfion — Combination of Propofitions, or Syllogifm — Diftindion bc' 

 tvvixt the Operations of the Mind upon, fubjedts without the Mind and within it — 

 Diflin£lion betwixt the Gnoftic and Oredlic Faculties of the Mind — ^This Diftindlion 

 not properly ftated by the Commentators upon Ariftotle— Only two Gnoftic Facul- 

 ties, Senfe and Mellecl — Different Meanings of the Word Senfe — The Mind Active 

 as well as Paffive in Perceptions of Senfe — The Perceptions of the Objedls of Senfe 

 by the means of the Phantafia—Oi Intellefl — It perceives Ideas either fingle, or in 

 combination — Of Reafoning — Science and Opinion — Explication of all the different 

 Words upon the Sabjedl of Mind — Of the Operation of Intelledl in AbJlraElion 



p. 108 



CHAP. VIIL 



Continuation of the Subject of IntcUeB — IntelleEl divided into Speculative and Practi- 

 cal — Difference betwixt thefe two — The Virtue of Prudence belongs to the Practical 

 Intellect — Manner of Reafoning of the Pra£tical Intellect — Cco^, real, or apparent, 

 the Motive of all Rational Actions — Difference betwixt Weak and Wicked Actions 

 —The Nature of the Speculative IntelleB — The End of it Truth — Speculative In- 

 ielle5l operates without the Affiftance of the Scn/es or Phantafia — Paffage of Aiiftotle 

 upon that Subject explained P* I'P 



CHAP. IX. 



^Of the Orcclic Powers of the Mind — Thefe not fitly divided, either by Philoponus or 

 Plato — Different Ore£Iic Powers belonging to the Animal and the Intellectual Na- 

 turc — Thofe of the Jnimal Nature — Thofe of the Intelledual- — What is the Caufe of 



'Animal, 



