AKTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book I. 



HAP. ir. 



Objection, That there is but one Mind in Man, not four, as is fuppofal 

 — Jhree Jnfwers to this Objeclion,-^2d 0bjeclion,7hat there is but 

 one Mind in the Univerfe—This the Dodrine of Dr Prieftley and 

 0/ Spinoza. — A particular Account of Spinoza's Philqfophy.—S^i- 

 noza's God not the Anima Mundi of Jntient Philofophy^^n^d Ob- 

 jciiion^ That there is no Mind in us but the Intelle^ual. — This an- 

 f-u'ered.-^Ofthe Tetradys of the Pythagoreans.— Corf effion of two 

 Mifakes coiumittcd by the Author. 



MA N is not only a Syftem in himfelf, but he is compofed of 

 feveral diftina fubftances, belonging to different Syftems ; 

 for he has in him,/r/?, the Elements of Fire, Air, Earth, and Wa- 

 ter, animated by that Mind, which I call the Elemental Mind ; 

 2do, The Vegetable Life, by which he grows, and is nouriihed j 

 3^0, The Animal Life, by which he has Senfations, Appetites, and 

 Defires, and feels Pleafure and Pain. — So far he is not more a com- 

 polltion than any other Animal ; but he has, 4^0, The Intelledual 

 Mind, which makes him the moft various Animal, and the mod 

 wonderful compofition that God has produced here below. 



There are, I know, who think that I make this compofition of 

 IVIan more wonderful than it truly is, and that I fuppofe four feve- 

 ral Minds, when one may do the bufmefs. For one Mmd, they fay, 

 may move the Elements of which he is compofed, may make him 

 grow and be nouriihed, may give him fenfations, and likewife ideas 



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