CONTENTS. 



BOOK III. 



Of the fcveral Minds In Mac, confidered as dlftind Subftances. 



CHAP. I. 



The InulUnual Mind, a diftinit Subftance from the Animal — Only two Opinions upon 

 the Subjeil — Things, to be diftinguiflied by their Properties — jiflive Beings, by their 

 Operations — The Operations of the Intelleif, and of the Animal Life, quite different — 

 Man operating by JntelleH, not a Senfttive Being — The Animal Nature, no Improve- 

 ment or Refinement of the Vegetable— ^o more is the Intelleilual an Improvement of 

 the Animal— The Vegetable Life exifls feparately from the Animal — therefore they arc 

 feparate Subftances — For the fame Reafon, the Intellef!ual?ini Animal Natures are fe- 

 parate Subftances — Our little World compofed of four Subftances — This the Te- 

 trailys of the Pythagoreans — Every Vegetable and y/n/CTo/ compounded of three different 

 Natures — This Dodtrine, of /Ar^^ diftindl Subftances in Man, the Doflrine of the 



Peripatetic School, as explained by Philoponus — Obje£lion to this Dodlrine anfwercd. 



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CHAP. II. 



The Confequence of the Doflrine oi three diftin£t Suhflances in Man — Thefe Subjlances 

 cannot be iranfmuted into one another — nor will the DeflruUion of one be attended 

 with the DeflruBion of another — ^\^\\\ lefs will they be dejlroyed by the DeflruUion of 

 the Body — The IntelleSiual Subflance cannot be io deftroyed, as it operates without 

 Body — Nor the Animal or Vegetable Subftances, though they do not operate without 

 Body—T]\tk are not perifhable by their own Nature, being Immaterial Subftances — 

 Of ihe feparate Exiflences of thefe Minds — The IntelleSlual does fo exift— ^The Animal 

 and Vegetable Minds do not tx\fk feparately — Of the Dodlrine of Tranfmigration — How 

 to be underftood upon the Principles of this Philofophy— Into what Bodies the fe- 

 veral Alinds tranfmigrate — Whether the Human Mind tranfmigrates into the Brute— 

 No Tranfmigration of the Elemental Life — This Philofophy eftablifhes the feparate 

 Exiflence, and the Immortality of the Soul, upon the fureft Foundation — The Doflrine 

 of Lucretius and of Mr. Locke eafily refuted upon the Principles of this Philofophy — 

 Comparifon of the Human Saul to the Mafler of a Ship—Oi the Ufe of this Philofo- 

 phy in Theology. p. jog 



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