62 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book 11. 



But the variety of Nature docs not end even here ; for, however 

 more excellent the Animal Life may be than the Vegetable, there is, 

 even in this our earth, a Nature, by many degrees fuperior to the 

 Animal — a Mind, which not only perceives external objcds, but 

 perceives that it perceives them, — which apprehends not particulars 

 only, but generals, — recognifes its own, as well as other natures, — 

 and, at laft, rifcs to the contemplation of the Great Univerfe, and its 

 Greater Author : This Nature is MaJi. The Almighty crowned his 

 works here below with the addition of Intelle£l to the Animal Nature: 

 Then indeed, he re/led, andfaiv that all ivas good. 



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