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only by fuccefTion, fuch as timey confifting of mhmtesy hours, and dajs, 

 or as many more parts as we pleafe, but which all exift fucceflively, or 

 not together. Fourthly^ There is what may be called a logical ivhok, 

 fuch as a genus, of which the feveral fpeciefes are parts : AnimaU for 

 example, is a ivhole, in this fenfe j and man, dog, horjc, &c. are the 

 feveral parts of it. And, Fifthly, The different qualities of the fame 

 fubflance may be faid to be parts of that fubftance. 



As to the firfl: fenfe of the word, no body, I believe, ever imagined 

 that the mind was^tzc^. And, if the reader be not yet perfuaded that 

 it is nc: body, 1 hope, in the fequel, to be able fully to convince him. 

 Neither do I think that any of my readers will fuppofe that it is either 

 number or time : So that it only remains to be inquired, whether 

 what we call parts of the mind, be only different qualities of the 

 fame fubftance, or different fubftances, but of the fame genus, viz, 

 mind ; for, as mind is a general name for a certain kind of fubliance, 

 all its feveral fpeciefes muff neceffarily be fubftances. 



The human mind, of which only I am now fpeaking, is compofed 

 of the vegetable, the animal, and the intelledual minds ; and the que- 

 ftion is. Whether thefe three be all the fame fubftance, of which the 

 vegetative, animal, and intelledual powers are but different qualities ? 

 or, Whether they be different fubftances ? 



Firft, let us compare the vegetable with the animal and intell^^c^ual 

 life : And this comparifon is the more eafily made, as, in the vege- 

 table, that kind of life is fepara^cd from both ; whereas, in all ani- 

 mals, the vegetable and animal life are neceflarily joined ; and in fome, 

 fuch as man, all the three : whereas, with refpc£t to the vegetable, I 

 think it is perfedly clear that the mind in it miift be different from 

 either the animal or iiUellecLuil mind; for, if it were the fame, it would 



have 



