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and ratiocination. In iliort, the Elementary, tlie Vcgetabie, ihc A- 

 nimal, and the Intelledual Life, may be all qualities or Accidents of 

 the fame Mind. 



But, in the Jitji place, it would be very extraordinary, if the fame 

 fubftance had quaHties fo exceedingly diiferent ; for what can be 

 more different than the power of nourifhing and making to grow, 

 and the faculty of thinking, reafoning, and reflecting ; and are not 

 the fenfitive power, and the power of fimply moving Body, very 

 different from either, and from one another ? As, therefore, the 

 feveral qualities of the fame fubftance have always fome connedion 

 or fimilarity to one another, it cannot be prefumed that the fame 

 Mind would have qualities fo entirely unlike to one another. 



2do, If we could fuppofe that the fame Mind could, in the fame 

 inftant, reafon and reflect, carry on the Vegetation within us, by 

 which we grow and are nourifhcd, and likewife the Animal oecono- 

 my, it would be giving a power to the Human Mind, which no 

 inferior created Mind is underftood to have, of being in diflx^ent 

 places, and performing fo many different operations, and all in the 

 fame inftant ; In fhort, it would be, in fome degree, giving an om- 

 niprefence to the human Mind. 



Lajlly^ If the feveral Minds, of which I maintain that Man is 

 compofed, nowhere exifted feparately, there might be fome reafon 

 to fuppofe that they were all qualities of the fame Mind. But the 

 Elemental Mind in our Bodies exifts by itfelf in every unorganized 

 Body ; the Mind, by which we grow and are nourifhed, in every 

 Vegetable ; the Animal Life in every Brute ; and no Theift will 

 deny that the Deity is pure Intelligence. Here, therefore, we 

 have all thefe different Minds, conftituting fo many different Sub- 

 ftances, exifting by themfelves. Now, it is impoflible to conceive 

 that a feparate Subftance fhould be a Quality or Accident of 

 another Subftance : For, to fuppofe that Subftance might be 



Accident 



