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ftinguifh betwixt the Good of the Animal Nature, and of the Intel- 

 lectual. What is Good to the Animal is that, which nourifhes and 

 preferves it, — procures it the Pleafures of Senfe, and other Animal 

 Pleafures : Whereas the Good of the Intelledtual Nature is that which 

 procures Knowledge, the fole Pleafure of the Intellcdl ; and, as 

 Knowledge pleafes becaufe it is Beautiful, the Good of Intelled is 

 that, which procures to it the contemplation of Beauty, either by 

 furnifhing the fubjeds of fuch contemplation, or preparing and dif- 

 pofing the Mind for it. It is, therefore, not without reafon, that 

 the Greeks, in the exprefTion, xaAoe-xayaSoc, or xaXoxayaSi*, have joined 

 together the Beautiful and the Good, with a proper precedency to 

 the Beautiful, as the principal Idea j for fo they appear to be joined 

 in Nature. 



The Gooi and the i/y^/ are alfo commonly joined together, in 

 the fame manner as the Good and the Beautiful ; and for the fame 

 reafon ; for the Ufefiil is fubfervient to the Good, as the Good is to 

 the Pleafures of the Animal and Intelledlual Life : Thus, Money is 

 ufcful, becaufe it procures food, and other neceflaries and conve- 

 niences of the Animal Life ; and it may minifter in the fame way to 

 the Pleafures of the Intellectual Nature. 



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