Chap. VII. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS, 303 



CHAP. VIU 



A 'wonderful ^ality of Mind not hitherto mentioned. — It exifis in «• 

 particular Time or Place — is not in the Body, as in a Veflel "which 

 contains it. — It is, ho'wever, fomewhere, afid in fome time. — // is 

 in Space and Time, but not as Body is — is converfant "with Objeds 

 dijlant in Time and Place — therefore mufl exifl in thofe diftant 

 Times and Places. — Difference bet'wixt us and the Brutes in this 

 refpefl. — In "what Senfe the Mind is confined to the Body. — Anf-wer 

 to the Obje^ionof ourfeeing Things at great Difiances. — Difference 

 bet'wixt our Mind and /^^ Divine in this refpe6l. — The Study of our 

 O'wn Minds may give us fome Conception even of the Ubiquity of 

 the Deity. — Of the Kno'w ledge of the Future — notfo different from 

 the kno'wledge of the PaftrtJ is commonly imagined. — The Brutes have 

 it in their natural State ajy^r as is neceffary for theOeconomy of their 

 Lives — they haveit eveninthedovntK\c^\.tdS\.2iK.t. — AFa^ concerning 

 the Hanoverian Boy. — Alteration made, as to the Divining Power 

 of the Human Mind, by Society and Civilization. — That Alteration 

 fill greater m //;f degenerate State of Society. — Of the Difference 

 bet'wixt the Minds o/" Savages flMJ(?/"Civilized Nations. — Diference 



bet'wixt the Animal and Intellectual Minds and the Vegetable. 



Neceffity that the Vegetable Part of the Animal fJjould be al-ways 

 adive, and never abroad. — Thefe Minds have no Situation in any 

 Part of the Body. 



I Will conclude this Book with obferviug a quality of Mind riot 

 hitherto mentioned, and which, to a reader not accuftomed to 

 metaphyfical fpeculations, will appear ftill more extraordinary than 



any 



