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chapter, he fays, That it docy not fometnncs think, and fomctlrncs not 

 think, cvz oTi junK mi, on h cu mi ; that is to fay, it always thinks. 

 This Philoponus feems to think is going too far, and making the 

 Human Mind equal to the divine ; and therefore he would under- 

 ftand it to mean, that there is always fome one Human Intelligence 

 in the world that is thinking ; but the words will not bear that 

 meaning ; for Ariftotle is not fpeaking of many Intelligences, but 

 of one. Nor does the Senfe require it ; for, though the Human In- 

 telligence, when feparated from all concretion of Matter, thinks al- 

 ways, (and, indeed, it appears to me it is impoffible to conceive it ia 

 that ftate without thinking), we are not to fuppofe that it either has 

 the fame extent of thought, or the fame power, as the Divine Mind. 

 On the other hand, I am perfuaded, that our IntelledV, when joined 

 to this Body, as it was at firft in a dormant ftate and did not exert 

 itfelf atall, fo, after it is put in adlion, it fometimes retires, n^ Milton 

 fays, into its private cell, ivhile Nature rejls *, in the flmie manner as the 

 Senfitive part of our Nature is quiefcent while we fleep ; for this is the 

 confequence of the Animal and Intelledual Minds being fo intimately 

 joined with a fubftance inert and fo different in Nature, as Body, 

 by which they are funk and weighed down, fo as to need rcpofe. 

 As to the Vegetable Life in us ; having a principle of motion in it 

 refembling that in unorganized Bodies, which is always adivc, it 

 continues to a£l, even in our fleep ; and indeed it was neceflary that 

 it fliould do fo, for the prefervation of the Animal f. 



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* Paradife Lod, Lib. 5- v. 108. 



t The reader will obferve, that I have altered my opinion concerning the con. 

 ftant operation of Intelledl:, which 1 have maintained in vol. i. p 141 20J. But I 

 am not aftiamed to acknowledge my error, and to confcfs, that I was led Into It 

 by that exprelBon of Ariflotlc's above mentioned, ov^ in ^s» mi, in Ji tv me which 



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