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Of the Difference o/" Minds.— Gr^<7^ Errors proceed from not knoiring 

 accurately that Difference. — The Vegetable differs from the Ele- 

 mental Life, as to the Body moved — the Motion — the Growth 

 — and the Final Caufe. — Difference betivixt the Animal and Vege- 

 table. — The Animal fenfitive, the Vegetable not. — Reafon for this 

 Difference.— !r-6f Animal has a Feeling of Pleafure and Pain — 

 the Vegetable not. — 77?// Difference betivixt the Animal and Ve- 

 getable proved by Experiment. — The Vegetable propagated many 

 more ivays than the Animal. — The Vegetable lAh fubfervicnt to 

 the Animal. — Remarkable Jnflance of this in the Conftrudion of the 

 Vegetable Part o/" Animals. — The Vegetable ^/ir/ Animal Life come 

 very near one another. 



HAVING thus fhown, that our Intelledual Mind is a fubftance 

 quite diftind from Matter, and borrowing nothing from it, 

 I return to a fubjedt upon which I have faid a good deal alreadv, 

 but which I think it is neceffary further to explain : The fubjed I 

 naean is the difference of the feveral Minds. To know this accurately, 

 is, I think, of great importance in philofophy ; and I obferve, that 

 many of our modern philofophcrs have fallen intogreat errors by not 

 diftinguifhing accurately the feveral kinds of them. Des Cartes, for 

 example, not being able to diftinguifh betwixt the Intelledual Mind 

 or Soul and the Animal Life, — and being perfuaded that the Brutes had 

 no Soul, but not conceiving how they could have Senfations, Appe- 

 tites, and Defires, without a Soul, maintained, that they had no 



Minds 



