CONTENTS. T 



in Matter — Matter and Form the Elements of Nature — joined with Extenfion they 

 form Btdy — with the Addition of Figure, Body becomes not infinite — certain Quali* 

 ties being further added, Matter becomes the Elements — What thefe Qualities are 

 — A principle of Motion further neccflary to make a phyfical Body Page 57 



CHAP. III. 



The Definition of Af/n^ further explained — Proved, that nothing can move itfelf— 

 That Mind does not move itfelf^—What is meant h^ Organization and Organs p. 66 



CHAP. IV. 



Ariftotle*s Definition of TkTzW— Shown not to be fufficiently comprehenfive in two rc- 

 fpeds — Alfo not fufficiently particular — Plato's Definition of Mind — This alfo im- 

 perfedl in two refpedls — The Definition above given the true Definition — agreeable 

 to the Opinion of Plato and Ariftotle, and of the Philofophers before them p. 75 



CHAP. V. 



Other TkfiWj befides the Rational ox InteUeElual-—i:\\t Brute Mind— The Vegetable — 

 That which moves unorganized Bodies — As great Varieties of Minds as of Bodies'"^ 

 The Scale of Nature not otherwife compleat — Mind not degraded by animating un- 

 organized Bodies — 1 he wonderful Operation of thefe Bodies in Nature — The Ani- 

 mal and Intelledual Life the Subject of the prefent Inquiry — Of the Animal Life — 

 Senfe, Appetite, Pain, and Pleafure, neceffary for the Prefervation and Continuation 

 of the Animal Life — The Phantafia alfo neceffary for the Animal Oeconomy — The 

 Mind, excited by the Afliftance of the f hantafia, and the confequent Appetites, 

 moves the Body, not directly, but by the intervention of certain Machinery — All 

 Animal's muft have Senfes, one or more, and alfo the Phantafia — Difference betwixt 

 Ariftotle and his Commentators on this lafl Point — Six differences betwixt 

 Senfe and Imagination — Memory does not belong to the Animal Nature — A cer« 

 tain Degree of Ratiocination, or Comparifon of Perceptions, belongs to fome Brute , 

 Animals of the better kind , p. 8j 



CHAP. vr. 



The Importance, the Utility, and the Comprehenfiveuefs of the Philofophy of Mind — 

 The Certainty of that Philofophy — The wonderful Chain in Nature by which the 



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