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the ivhok, but of every the fir ailed part •, and, as it exifts, fo It is ge- 

 nerated and produced ; for it is not produced all together, but one part 

 after anoiher *. I'his, therefore, is the nature of ^o^/, that all the 

 parts of it, however homogeneous, are different from one another in 

 pofition ; and the isohok is not one fimple fubitance, but a multitude, 

 or heap of fubilances, as many as there are parts into which it is divi- 

 fible t. It is alfo an imperfed exiflence in another refped, that fome- 

 thing always may be conceived to be added to it j fo that it is never 

 perfed or com pleat in itfelf. 



The third kind of things exlfting by parts Is, when the parts are co- 

 exiftent, yet not contiguous, or joined, but feparate and disjoined. Of this 

 kind is number^ the parts of which are feparated by nature^ and only 

 united by the operation of the mhicL The ivhok of this kind is more d 

 perfed than either of the other two ; for it is not divifible into parts, 

 which are likewife infinitely divifible, but is all relolvable into parts 

 perfectly fimilar one to another, which have no place or pofition, and 

 which are incapable of divifion : From whence it is evident, that the 

 ivhole of this kind is much more fimple and uncompounded than ei- 

 ther of the other two. But ftill it is divifible, at leaft into a certain 

 number of parts ; fo that it is not an indivifible ivhole ; and It has the 

 other kind of imperfedion, mentioned above as belonging to magni- 

 tude, that It is capable of further augmentation iti infinitum ; and> 

 therefore, it is not in this refped a perfcd and compleat ivhok any 



more than magnitude, 



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the fame account of it j ^£|t«-T» ^jv x-rXui n. o-tuuxrucf^ twttt Trxe-a, uXXmi ttWo^tv rui ftt^i- 

 mv Ktiuiiui. Hence it comes that the pari; arc fituated at a diftance or divided from one 

 another ; and therefore it is called lixo-ictTi •i/<r<«i whereas Plotinus tells us, N#vj «v 

 'tieta-Ttti «<p* '«wToi»: lntelle6l is not divided from itfelf. 



* Sec Simplicius's commentary upon the firlt book of Ariflotle De Animay fol, »o« 

 page 2. in fine. 



\ See more upon this fubjeft m Cudworth'sintelledual fyftem, p. 829» 



