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C O N T E N 



BOOK I. 



X P L A I N I N G the Nature of the Science of Metaphyfics, 



and containing Definitions and Obfervations neceffary for what 

 follows. 



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C H A P. I. 



Of the Subjeft of Metaphyjtcs — All Things in Nature either Body or Mind — Subject of 

 Phyftcs is Body joined with Mind — Subject of Metaphyfics is Mind by itfelf Page i 



C H A P. IL 



Definition of Body and Mind — Definitions of Body given by Modern Philofophers not 

 proper — Definitions here given agree with thofe given by Plato and Ariftotle — Ob- 

 jeftions to thefe Definitions anfwered— Impropriety of the Englifh Language with 

 refpedl to the Ufe of the word Move — Inconfiftence of Mr Locke on the Subjed of 

 ik/?Wand Body - p. 6 



CHAP. III. 



0{ Motion — ^Things preparatory to the Definition of Motion — Two Definitions of it 

 given by Ariftotle — One of them better than the other — Not defined by Modern 

 Philofophers — nor by Plato — Ariftotle's Divifion of Motion — Plato's Divifion dif- 

 ferent—Compared with that of Ariftotle's, both as to Matter and Style p. 13 



CHAP. IV. 



Univer/als conne£led with Motion— -Habit — Power of two kinds, viz. Capability — and 

 Faculty — Energy^ likewife of two kinds — different from Action — A^iion and PaJJion 

 reciprocal — The two great Principles of Nature are One Things that is always ac- 

 tive, and another, that is always pa/Jive — Change a very general Idea — more general 

 than Motion — Different Kinds of Change — All Change produced by fome Caufe — 



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