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ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book L 



with reaped to Intelledand its operations, that Space is to Body : For 

 Space is certainly not the efficient Caiife of Body, nor any quality or 

 property of Body ; neither is it the inftrumcnt by which Body is 

 produced or atfls, but without it Body coukl not exift. 



There is another connection betwixt our Animal and Intelledual 

 Natures, That the former furnillies materials by the means of the 

 Senfcs, upon which the latter operates, and forms Ideas. In this 

 refpeft, the connexion betwixt our /\nimal and Intelledual part 

 feems to be pretty much the fame as betwixt our Vegetable and Ani- 

 mal : For, as the Vegetable nourifhes the Anim.al, fo the xAnimal 

 may be faid to nourifh the Intellectual, by furnifhing to it the mar 

 terials of thought. And thus we fee that the lower Mind in us is 

 always fubfervient to the higher, and the three lowed all to the 

 higheft. In this manner, the feveral fubftances are moft wonderfully 

 conneded in Our moft artificial Syftem, in which, as in every com- 

 plete Syftem, there is one principal thing, to which every thing elfe 

 is fubfervient. 



Before I conclude this Book, it may not be improper fliortly to 

 recapitulate the differences which diftinguiih thofe four Minds, of 

 which we are compofed, from one another. The Elemental Mind, 

 as I have faid, is nothing but that Mind, which, animating mere 

 Matter, makes it w^hat Ariftotle calls a Phyfical Body. The opera- 

 tion of this Mind in us is chiefly feen when we fall from any height. 

 This we do without the concurrence or controll of the Vegetable, 

 Animal, or Intelledual Mind, in us ; which fhows that this Principle 

 is diftind from all and each of the other three. From the Vegetable it 

 differs in two refpeds ; iwo. It nourifhes and makes to grow ; nei- 

 ther of which is done by the mere Elemental Mind. For Bodies, 

 that have only that Mind, may grow greater by accretion^ or lefs, by 

 what may be called decret'ion^ that is, by being rubbed and worn ; 



but 



