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O N T E N T S. 



BOOK I. 



/^F the Diftindtion betwixt Mind and Body, and of the Properties 

 of each. 



CHAP. I. 



The Foundation of all Philofophy, that there are two Subftances in the Univerfe 



Three Opinions upon this Subjcd — The Patrons of two of thefe— The laft revived 

 of late by Dr. Prieflley—Th^ Confequence cf this Opinion — The Philofophy of Me- 

 taphyfics not to be invented by any one Man— only to b« learned from anticnr 

 Books. Page , 



CHAP. IT. 



ilf/Wand Body are each of them SubJJances- hW TW[n^^^ Subjlatices or Acidents—Sub- 

 Jlancn known to us only by their Operations— Definition given of £*^_)/ and of ^/W— 

 Advantages of thofe Definitions — Alind does not always move, nor is Body always 

 moved—hut the Definition is from the Power — Difficulty of defining iW/W acknow- 

 ledged by the Antients. p_ g 



CHAP. III. 



Properties of Body refulting from its Definition— ift, Having Parts, and being divifible 

 —2d, Occupying Space, or Extenfion — Extenfion not being the EfTence of Matter 

 fuppofes Matter not extended— 3d, Refifieme another Property of Body—i^\.\i, Impe- 

 netrability — 5th, Solidity— 6th, Continuity— Dr. Prieftley's Notions concerning Body 

 refuted — Laftly, Bodies ad upon one another by their Surfaces. p. 12 



CHAP. IV, 



Ol Mind, and its Qualities— yI//W only aaive—Bidy paffive— The Nature of ^J7/;« 

 and Paffwn-Of the Fis Inertia of Body— Of Jition and Reaction— Body does not pro- 

 perly move— Ths Cohefwn of Body produced by Mind— Mind not extended, figured, or 

 divifible, according to Dr. Clarh's Nouon—AIind, neverthelefs, exifts in Space, but 

 not as Body does — Infinite Space no Attribute of the Deity, p j g 



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