50. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. BookIL 



BOOK II. 



Of che feveral Kinds of Mind. 



CHAP. I, 



Js there are different Motions, Jo there are different Minds. — Of the 

 loivejl or elemental Mind. — Proclus's notion of that Mind. — OfGra- 

 vitation, compared -with other motive Principles — Mind ftot al- 

 ivays moving, nor Body alivays moved, — Of the reality of this 

 motive Principle in Body. — The feveral Opinions upon this Sitbje^ 

 —Objedion to the Exijlence of this Mind anfivered. — The Vege- 

 table Mind lefs abundant than the Elemental — more abundant than 

 the Senfitive. — The Vegetable more artificial than the Elemen- 

 tal — but lefs than the Senfitive. — Lafl of ally is the Intellectual, 

 much more excellent than any of the other three. 



IN this chapter, I propofe to give an account of the feveral fpccie- 

 fes of this great genus Mind ; for, as there are feveral different 

 kinds of Motion in this univerfe, there mufi: be different Minds ; and, 

 as all the Motions in it are diredled by Intelligence, there muft be 

 Minds in it that have intelligence, as well as a moving power. 



I will begin with the Mind which only moves, and this in the 

 funpleft manner. The Mind I mean, is that which, according to 



the 



