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ent Men, and in the fame Men at different times and in different 

 ftates, that fonie have doubted whether there be not different Intel- 

 ledlual Natures in us, and whether the Animal, Man, be not ftill 

 more compofed than I make him : For, as Ariftotle has obfer- 

 ved *, there are very many parts of the Mind, fuch as the Intellec- 

 tual, the Senfitivc, the Phantaftic, the Oredic, &c. ; and it is diffi- 

 cult to determine whether they be Subftances by themfelves, or 

 Qiialities of the fime Subftance. As to this doubt concerning Intel- 

 led, I mentioned it in the preceding Volume t, ftartcd by one 

 of Arillotle's commentators ; and, even in Ariftotle himfelf, there 

 are fome paffiiges, which look as if he were inclined to give us two 

 Intelleds, diflinguiftied from each other by their feveral operations ; 

 and no lefs a philofopher than Plotinus underflood this to be Arif- 

 totle's meaning, as we are informed by Philoponus, in his commen- 

 tary upon the Sixth Chapter of the Third Book of Ariftotle, De 

 Anima. This is a matter of no lefs curiofity than importance in the 

 Phllofophy of Mind ; and therefore I propofe to examine it in this 

 Chapter ; for which purpofe it will be neceflary to premife fome 

 diftindions ; for there is nothing more true, than the common fay- 

 ing of the Schoolmen, that, ' Qui bene diftinguit, bene docet.' And 

 he who thinks that, by the force of his genius merely, he can appre- 

 'hend thofe things in the lump, without taking the trouble to make 

 fuch diftindions, may bid adieu to philofophy. 



And there is one diftindion often mentioned in the courfe of this 

 work, but of which it is proper to remind the Reader here, as, 

 without it, it is impoffible to explain this fubjed. It is a diftindion 

 which runs through all Nature, difcriminates things Eternal and Di- 

 vine from things Mortal and in Generation, as the Antients ex- 



prefled 



* Lib. •?. c 10. De Jnitna- 

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