A N T I E N T 



METAPHYSICS. 



BOOK I. 



Of the Diftindion betwixt Mind and Body, and of the 

 Properties of each. 



CHAP. L 



The Foundation of all Philofophy^ that there are tivo Suhjlances in 

 the Uni'verfe — Three Opinions upon this Subje^l — The Patrons of 

 tiuo ofthefe — The Iqft revived of late by Dr Prieftley — The con/e- 

 quence of this Opinion — The Philofophy of Metaphyjics not to be in' 

 •vented by any one Man — only to he learned from antient Books. 



TH E foundation of Metaphyfics, of Theology, of Natural 

 Philofophy, and, indeed, as it appears to me, of all Philofo- 

 phy, is this propofition. That there are in the univerfe two fubftan- 

 ces altogether different and diftind from one another, however clofely 

 they may be joined and connedled together — Mind and Body. Be- 

 fides this, there can be only two other opinions upon the fubjed. 

 Vol. II. A namely, 



