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wonderful manner, and Incorporated in the fame mafs of matter : And, 

 if it be true, what the antient philofophers faid, that 7nan is a little 

 world, there mufl be the fame union of thefe three principles in the 

 great world. 



But, as there is in the great world phyjtcal hod}\ not organized, but 

 having a principle of motion in it, fo alfo is there in our little one : 

 And this principle of motion I comprehend under the general name 

 o^ mind I though Ariftotle fays, as I have before obferved,. that it is 

 only like to mind. That it is different from any of the three prin- 

 ciples above mentioned, is evident from its operations, by which only 

 we can diflinguifh the difference of things; for, that its operation is 

 altogether different, not only from thought and reafon, but from the 

 operation of the animal and vegetable principle, as different as the 

 animal or vegetable is from unorganized matter, is evident to com- 

 mon obfervation. 



Thus I have fliown in what fenfe the human mind can be faid to 

 confift of parts, namely, that it is compofed of three diftindt fubftan-i- 

 ces, united together in a wonderful manner ; but each of thefe fub- 



ftances we are to conceive as fimple in itfelf, and indivifible ; for I am 



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now to proceed to fhow, that they are each of them immaterial fub- 

 flances, indivifible, and, by confequence, without parts* 



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