150 ANT IE NT METAPHYSICS. Book III. 



HAP. III. 



Whether there be not tivo Intelledlnal Subftances 'uiithin us. — Dijlinc- 

 tions necejfary to be made for refolving this ^leftion. — ly?, Diftinclion 

 betivixt Mere Power, or Capacity, and Actuality. — 2d., Diftinflion 

 betivixt Form rt«^ Matter. — 3d', Dijlinclion betivixt Subftance and 

 Accident. — Accidents are perceived by the Senfcs, but Subftance is 

 an Idca/ormed by Intelled. — The Human Intelled exi/Is only po- 

 tentially — not only in the Individual, but in the Species. — The 

 Frogrefs from Potentiality to Adluality flovt) in the Individuals of 

 Civilized Nations — very much floiver among Savage Nations. — 

 Of the Nature of the Firft Ideas formed by Savages.— Z^f Form 

 .in them not fepardted frofn the Matter. — Practical Intelfigence in 

 Civilized Nations, not much different. — Great Difference, in Point 

 o/" Intelligence, betivixt the Savages it'^o fubfift by Induftry, in the 

 Practice of certain Arts., and thofe ivho live upon the Natural 

 Fruits of the Earth.— The S:iv age does ?w/ Speculate — therefore has 

 no Ideas oj High Abftradion — is neither Arithmetician nor Geo- 

 meter. — What his Ideas of Number a7id Figure are. — Of his Idea 

 o/'Mind — does 7iot make the Di/linSiioii betivix't Natural Caufes and 

 the Operations of Mind — believes in fuperior Minds. — Speculative 

 Intelligence contrajled ivith Pradlical. 



BY what I have faid in the preceding Chapter, I hope I have 

 made it evident, that our Intelleduul Mind or Soul is a Sub- 

 ftance, diftind, not only from our Body, but from our Animal and 

 Vegetable Life, however clofely it may be conneded with them, in 

 this our prefent State. — But Intelledl appears fo different, in dilTer- 



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