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That this is the meaning of the paiTage, and that Ariftotle is there 

 fpeaking of the Pradical Intellca, as oppofcd to the pure Theoreti- 

 cal Intelledt, is, I think, evident from the words, which plainly 

 oppofe to one another the two different manners of operating of the 

 Intellecft. And, indeed, through the whole chapter, the two are 

 contrafted together ; and the one is faid to be vnpajfive^ or «T»9»if, 

 and «/uiy»if, or unmixed^ while the other is faid to be pajjive and 

 corruptible *. But that he did not believe that thefe two Intelleds 

 were two diftinft Subftances, and not one and the fame Subftance, 

 is evident from the whole dodrine laid down by him in this and the 

 preceding chapter, which is, That our Intelled, without any diftinc- 

 tion betwixt the Speculative and Pradtical, proceeds from a ftate of 

 potentiality to a flate of perfection : And, if fo, it is evident that, be- 

 fore it can arrive at perfedion, it muft operate imperfedly, and be 

 at firft paffive, before it can be active ; a diftindion with which A- 

 riftotle fets out in the beginning of this chapter. 



Bur, 



* The whole words in the particular paflage referred to are as follows : X^jurSnf, 



(fpoking of N«t/f), Jl »<rl< fintt Touj' oarij gcrlj* k«i Tturt fttrtf tc6x>»Ttf khi aiiiot, Ou 

 fitnftciivcfUf ot, cTi revTo f<ii' xsruhf' i n v»iitTiK»{ »•»;, (fix^Tof, K»t «>iv rtuTtv tvSlt 



»o«. Lib. 3- De J/iima, cap. 6. where it is evident that the t»wt« fcn nTTxttf, which 

 he oppofes to the uxintiKu N»v5, is the pure fpeculative Intelledt, which, he had 

 faid before, in the fame chapter, was both «/«yiis and nrrxttit : The «» fitiiftttiv*' 

 fiit, with which the fentence begins, I hold, applies to the pure Intellect, and 

 means not that it forgets, but that it has not any ufe or need of memory ; as I think 

 is evident from a paffage in the firfl book of this treatifc, cap. 5. towards the end, 

 where, fpeaking of this pure Intelled, he fays, That, when the Body to which it is 

 joined is dilTolved, okti /utnutvivn, tvrt fiixn j of which paflage I fliall fay more in 

 the fequel. What he fays in the end of the paffage before us, that, without 

 the paffive Tntellefl, the Mind thinks of nothing, refers to the progreffion from 

 that ftate of mere capacity in which the Intelledl is, before it is impreffed by ex- 

 ternal objefts ; which impreffion is abfolutely neceflary for its operating in this 

 our prefent flate. 



