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Moreover, Ariftotle fays, that our Intcllcdual part, in this fepa- 

 rate ftate, does not love or hate, nor remember, nor make ufe of the 

 A.awia, or Difcourfe of Reafon ; all v^rhich, he fays, belong to the 

 compound of Soul and Body, not to the Soul by itfelf, it being then 

 impaflive, and of a Divine Nature *. The meaning of which is, 

 That our Soul, in that State, has all its Ideas prefent at once : It fees, 

 intuitively, premifles and confequences, without deduction or infe- 

 rence, or any procefs of Reafoning : It has no need of Memory or 

 Reminifcence, which are only neceflary in this ftate of our exiftence, 

 to prevent our Ideas from being as fleeting as our Bodies, which, 

 as they muft affedt our Mind, are the caufe of forgetful ncfs, impart- 

 ing to the Mind, in fome degree, their fleeting Nature ; and, there- 

 fore, in the paflage above quoted, Ariftotle fays very properly, that 

 the Intelleft, in its feparate ftate, does not remember, becaufe it 

 is not pafllve, that is, not affeded by Body f : And, lajlly^h.^ fays, 

 That it does not love or hate ; by which he means, that it is free 

 from all fuch afFedlions or pafllons which he confiders as belonging 

 to the Animal Nature, from which it is feparated, as well as from 

 the Body. 



Such being the dodrine of Ariftotle concerning the Soul, laid 

 down fo clearly and diftindly, it muft appear very furprifmg that 



his 



I inadvertently applied to the IntellecTV, even 'when united to the Body; wlierea* 

 Ariftotle certainly underftands it only of the Intellect ;g*{<«-5ii«, or feparated from 

 Body. 



• T« S'l Jianiicr^jti, xNi ^iAii», » ft'Titf, tvK !s-1( •««>»« (t»u iov) irx6ii,xXXu revh rev t^ot' 

 rt( fxiix, It lx!<>« ixi>- ^'»> «*' feuTjti (fHt^tftiiov, evri ftynfioiuii, tuTt (fiXti' »v ya( ixw 

 ftv r,», «?t>i« T»v K.»inu,i »ua>i0Xif i ii ttvs iirtif #ii«ri{or ti icxi xwtill; t/lit. Lib. I. Cap. f. 



Where Philoponus obferves, that Ariftotle ufes the word «r*{, becaufe he had not 

 yet fo fully proved, as he does afterwards, thrft the Soul was of a Nature Divine, 

 and therefore impaflible. 

 j- 0» (ifiifittinet, in xwalti. 



