484 A N T I E N T METAPHYSICS. Book V. 



Lajlly^ From what I have faid of thefubordinatlon of ideas, we may ob- 



ferve the progrefs of things upwards, and the wonderful tendency of all 



things in nature towards one principle of union. This is to be found in 



all the feveral clafl'es of being, which ftill rife, one above another, till they 



end in that one category to which they belong. And here the ana- 



lyfis of logic ends ; but where logic ends, theology begins, and fliows 



that all the ten categories terminate in one principle, and have one 



common origin, the intelleB Diu'ine^ the fource of every thing exifting, 



or that can exiil in theuniverfe, where all things exift in themoft perfe<5t 



iinity \ for there is noifirjl or laji there, nor the fuccefTion of ideas as 



in our minds, but all things are prefent at once; and the /?^y?, xhQ pre* 



fenty and ihtjuturCy what is precedent ^ and what is confequent^ are 



feen in one view. In this manner, not only logic, but every other 



fcience, ends in theology^ the fummit of all philofophy, and which 



to know, is the perfedion of human nature. 



Having thus removed, as I hope, all objections to the principles of 

 human knowledge, I will now proceed to fome further fpeculations 

 concerning mind^ with which I am to conclude this book, and this 

 part of my work. 



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