CONTENTS. 



from that in which Body moves Brdy — Confequences of that DifFerenct — We know, 

 therefore, in fome refpedl', how Alind moves Body. Page 43 



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Of the feveral Kinds of Mind. 

 CHAP. I. 



As there are different Motions, Co there are different Minds Of the lovi'efl or elemen- 

 tal Afield — Proclus's Notion of that Mind — Of Gravitation, compared with other 

 motive Principles — Mind not always moving, nor Bo<ly always moved— Of the Rea- 

 lity of this motive Principle in Body — The feveral Opinions upon this Subjeft 



Objedlion to theExiftence of this Mind SinCweted — The Vegetable Mind lefs abundant 

 than the Elemental — more abundant than the Senfttive — The Vegetable more artificial 

 than the Elemental — but lefs than the Senfttive — Laft of all, is the Intellecfual much 

 more excellent than any of the other three. p. cq 



CHAP. II. - 



Of the Difference betwixt Man and Brute — This only to be learned in anticnt Philofo- 

 phy — likewife another Diftindion, betwixt God znd- Nature — The Difficulty of dif" 

 tinguifliing Man and Brute arifes from the Progrefs of Nature, by Degrees, infen- 

 fible, from lower to higher Beings — The Diftinftion of Man and Brute depends upon 

 dirtinguifhing Ideas and Senfations — Thefe not confounded in antient Philofophy^ 

 Confounded by Mr. Locke and by Mr. Hume — The Ufe of the Word Idea in antient 

 and modern Times — Some Ideas certainly not Senfations; fuch as the Ideas of Being, 



Number, Beauty, Truth; — becaufe thefe cannot be apprehended by any Senfe This 



is the Dodrine of Plato in the Theatetes — Difficulty of applying this Diftindion to 

 particular Subftances — This Difficulty folved, by recurring to the original Notion of 

 Idea — It denotes the inward Form of the Thing — That inward Form Mind — This 

 differently expreffed by Plato and Arijiotle — The Senfations arc the outxvard Aftear- 

 ances or Accidents of Things — This Diftin6tion betwixt the two, explained — General 

 Obfervations concerning Ideas— Of AbJlracl~of General Ideas — Ideas of Senf.ble 

 polities, as well as of Sub/lances— The Confequences of maintaining that Ideas are 

 Senfations — No Stability of Knowledge upon that Hypothefis— This the Doflrine of 

 Protagoras and Hcaclitus — fliould have been the Dodrinc of Mr. Hume — Difference 



betwixt 



