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ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book I. 



the immediate caufe of our Animal Motion, though it guides and 

 direds that Motion : But the immediate caufe of it is the Animal 

 Life in us ; a proof of which is, that, in our early infancy, before 

 •the Intelleft has begun to exert itfelf, and while it is yet latent in 

 us, the Animal Motions ftill go on ; and, even after we are grown 

 up, many of thofe Motions are performed without choice or delibe- 

 ration, that is, without any ad of Intelled ; and, unlefs we will 

 confound Man with Brute, and maintain that the Brutes have In- 

 tel ledt as well as we, we muft admit that all their Motions are per- 

 formed without Intelledl. 



What orily can create any difficulty upon this fubjed, is a notion 

 that has prevailed, I believe very generally, among our modern phi- 

 lofophers, that nothing is Mind but what is Intelligent. But, if I 

 have rightly made that diftindtion of Minds, which I have fo much 

 infifted upon, and made the foundation of my whole philofophy of 

 Mind, and have convinced the reader, that, befide the Intelleaual 

 Mind, there is an Animal and a Vegetable A4ind, as well as that 

 which moves unorganized Body, he will have no difficulty to diftin- 

 o-uifh them in our compofition, and to affiign to each of them its 

 proper province ; or, if he fliould have any, what is to be faid in 

 the next chapter will remove it. 



I think, therefore, I may conclude, that there is truly in Man the 

 famous Tetradys of the Pythagoreans, comprehending, as I have 

 ffiown elfewhere, thefe four Minds, and which, therefore, they faid, 

 was the fountain from whence all Nature flowed f, and that Man 



is 



f See what I have faid upon the fubjedl of the Telraftys, in a note upon p. 135. 

 «f Volume Second. To which It may be added, that, as the Pythagoreans were 



certainly 



