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tive Powers of Nature, may be coniidered as Mundane Gods : And 

 it is in this fenfe that I underftand the faying of Thales, the firfl 

 philofopher of Greece, " That every thing was full of Gods *." But 

 thofe fublime philofophers conceived that there were, above them, 

 Gods, which they called fupramundane^ which were not embo- 

 died, and did not at all mix with Matter ; and it was of them they 

 made the threefold divifion above mentioned. 



* To this fenfe of the faying will apply very well the noted ftory of Thales. 

 When fome perfons came to fee a man of whom they had heard fo much, and found 

 him in a kitchen, he bid them enter ; " For here," fays he, " there are alfo Gods.'* 

 By which I think he could hardly mean any other Gods than thofe I call Mundane, 



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