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knows the variety of Nature, and has learned to diftinguifh be- 

 twixt the fcveral things that enter into the compolition of Natural 

 Subflances ; yet I am perfuadcd it is the fource of the coniinon er- 

 ror upon this fubjed : For we fpeak of Man as having but one 

 Mind, without dirtinguifliing betwixt his Soul and his Animal or 

 Vegetable part ; and we think a man, now a days, a good phi- 

 lofopher, if he can diftinguifh betwixt this fingle Mind in Man and 

 his Body. But, for the fame reafon, as Phlloponus has well obfer- 

 ved, that we conceive the Body, and the feveral kinds of Mind, to 

 be diftind fubftances, though clofely joined together, fo we ought 

 to conceive thefe minds as diftind from one another *. 



From this dodrine of our Intelleftiial Nature being a fubftancff 

 xliftinifl from our Animal Life, as diftinft as that life is from the 

 Vegetable, there refult feveral moft important confequcnces, as I 

 fhall fliow in the following chapter. 



C HAP. 



• T will give the wor-Is of Phlloponus, becaufe there is an error in the text, 

 which I thinlc I am able to correft. Mii «o-»{mt4i ^i th i^m-xxxi <«t»5i«» fK«>ni». 



T« ««» ; T{i/f i^«>5«f 'X'M't **' ""■•'■{I*' ■4'UX'" ^lOiKcvfiifx' /t"/« y«j iti *»■»■«{ ttulur* 

 li ■vJ'k;^!) t«p riftxTi T»t/Tf(, JjKH fto it n ?rj«y«« iitiiit ; KtcTx aXr.^eictt it »«j; «» ft 

 •»1ir, iuTU Ti| T« i\tym, kxi t<\ (fvTiKri (rvfigu^Etif fiiaf fti> rittt (rvit)(,nxt iT«i« CiX 

 TijiF cvtx'Pttxf iJiiTCW y«{ TT^tri^iif tijj fcm Aoyixii? it a>.ay>fy Ti){ S's «A«yot/ i <fvTiKn. 

 hix )t rr,i yitifiit^i ix r^f rvyaipHx; Tai/ii){ e-f;wjrK.^««», fiixt ^xftli' Kai in uf «{y«(»«if »•- 



x;iiT«i T«({ <»AA«ij Ivfxuts-it i »>.>yt(. Ih the laft part of this paflage there fliould not 

 be after the ?>«««» a full flop, but only a coma ; and, in the end of the paflage, in- 

 ftead of i «A»y»«, we fhould read « xtyixn : And then the fenfe is clear, which is this ; 

 " Becaufe ihefe feveral Minds, by reafon of this connediion, have a mutual fym- 

 *• pathy, we fay that they are one, and that the Rational Mind ufes the other two 

 *' as organs.' 



I cannot help obferving here, that it is much to be wiftied that this valuable work 

 of this Chriftian commentator upon Ariflotle were reprinted, and the many errors 

 in the only edition we have of it, both in the pun(Stuation and the words, correc- 

 ted : And I have no doubt but that it will be done in England ; as I hope that couni. 

 try will have the honour of reviving the Greek Philofophy, which it will not be 

 difficult to do where the Greek learning i$ fo well underflood. 



