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CONTENTS OF THE PREFACE. 



goras^ hut not by Plato Pythagoras hi Egypt when it ivas hi all its 



Glory i much decayed hi later Thnes What Learning he may have 



got elfcwhere mujl have come oiighially from Egypt Jfter his 



Travels rejided in Crotona Hoiv he lived there Did Things 



mojl extraordinary Pojfible that fitch a Man might ex'i/l No 



Impofor^ as ivas evident from his Works His School produced the 



bcjl Men that ever exi/led Not only great Philofophers but great 



Legifators^ Generals^ and Statefmen Examined very carefully thofc 



he admitted into his School His Scholars governed many Slates in 



Italy and Sicily Wei'e mild and gentle Governors^ but were maffa- 



cred and driven out of the Country Thofe who fui'vived of them 



committed their Philofophy to Writing Of the PhiUfophy of So- 



crates -He not taught^ therefore not a Philofopher Shews that 



Philofophy could not have been of the Growth of Greece Plato 



very well taught Formed a complete Body of Philofophy Stu- 



died the fublimef Theology Excelled Socrates in the Do&rine of 



Morals Both he and Arifotle took that Doari?ie from the Pytha- 

 goreans Thefe made the Senfe of the Pidchrum and Honeflum the 



Foundation of all Virtue Plato s peculiar Notion of Jufice is Py- 



tha'Torean Ariftotle not f el ft aught any more than Plato Learned 



a nreat deal from Books ^ of which he began the frf Colledion 



His extraordinary hiduftry The great ef Part of his Writings lof 



The reft preferved aim of by Miracle Aj-ifotWs Syflem of 



Philofophy fill more comprehenftve than Plato s Added nothing to 



Metaphyftcs In Phyfcs added nothing to Principles, but a great 



deal to Fa&s f natural Hifory Added nothing to Morals that is 



for the better His Notion of Jufice not fo comprehenftve as Plato's 



Has added nothing to the Morals of Plato but what he has taken 



from the Pythagoreans The Logic of Arifotle a nuf wonderful In- 



.mention Some Account of its Nature— ---The Analyfs of Reafoning 



abfolutcly neceffary for forming a Syfem of Logic -The mof dijicult 



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