Chap. I. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 133 



BOOK III. 



Of the feveral Minds in Man, confidercd as diftincl 

 Subftances. 



CHAP. I. 



The Intelledlual Mind, a dijlincl Subjlance from the Animal. — Only two 

 Opinions upon the Subje^. — Things, to be diJlinguiJJied by their Pro- 

 perties — Adive Beings, by their Operations. — The Operations of 

 the Intelledt, and of /^(f Animal Life, quite different. — Man ope- 

 rating by Intelled, «<?/ a Senfitive Being. — 77;^ Animal Nature, no 

 Impro'uement or Refnement of the Vegetable. — No more is the Intel- 

 ledtual an Improvanent of the Animal. — The Vegetable Life exifs 



feparately from /A<f Animal — therefore they arefeparateSub/iances. 



For the fame Reafon,thelnteUeQ.usi\ ^k^ AnimalNatures arefeparate 

 Subjlances. — Our lit tie World, compofedofiouv Subflances — This the 

 Tetradys of the Pythagoreans. — £^'^;7 Vegetable cni Animal, cow- 

 pounded o/" three different Natures. — This Doflrine, 0/' three diflinB 

 Subjlances in Man, the Do£lrine of the Peripatetic School, as ex- 

 plained by Philoponus. — ObjeBion to this Dodrine^ anpwered. 



HAVING, in the preceding Book, diftinguiflied the feveral 

 kinds of Mind in our wonderful compofition, and, particu- 

 larly, having fhown that the Intelleftual Mind is perfectly diftindt 

 from the Anini:.l, in every view in which it can be confidered, whe- 

 ther with refped to its Objects, the manner of apprehending thefe 



Objeds, 



