82 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book 11. 



CHAP. V. 



Other Minds befiJcs the iUtional or Intclledual. — The Brute Miiid — ■ 

 The Vegetable — That ivhich moves miorganized Bodies — As great 

 Varieties ^ Minds as 0/ Bodies — The Scale of Nature not other-wife 

 compleat — Mind not degraded by animating unorganized Bodies — The 

 ivonderjiil Operation of theje Bodies in Nature — The Animal and 

 IntelleBual Life the SnhjeB of the pre/ent Inquiry. — Of the Animal 

 Life — Senfe^ Appetite^ Pain^ and Pleajurc, neceffary for the Prejer~ 

 'uation and Coiitinu t'on of the Animal Lile — 77?^ Phantafta alfo ne- 

 ceffary for the Animal Oeconomy — The Mind, excited by the Affflance 

 of the Phantafuh and the con/equent Appetites, monjcs the body, not 

 direct ly^ but by the intervention of certain Machitiery — All Animals 

 77iufi have Senfes. one or more, and alfo ihe Phantafta — Difference be- 

 titnxt Ariflotle and his Commentator's on this laft Point — Six differ^ 

 ences betivixt Senfe and Imagination — Memory does not belong to the 

 Animal Nature — A certain degree of Ratiocination, or Comparijon of 

 Perceptions, belongs tofome Brute Animals of the better Kind. 



S, therefore, according to the opinion of all the antient philofo- 

 phers who were not Atheifts, it is inijia that moves, body that 

 is moved ; and, as all bodies are in motion, or have a tendency to be 

 moved, it is evident that there muft be jnind ewcxy vvhere in the uni- 

 verfe. It is therefore an univerfal of the iirlf order, as univerfal as 

 matter and fonn^ and more univerfal than body ; fince there is wzWwith- 

 out body, but no body, as far as we know, without mind, 



I know the general opinion is, that thought and intelligence are ef- 

 fential to mind, and that it is only what thinks and underitands that 



deferves 



