INTRODUCTION. s 



And here we may obferve how wonderful a compofition the ani- 

 mal man is; for there are in him, befides body, all the i'everal minds 

 1 have mentioned, the intelleflual, the animal, the vegetable, and the 

 elemental, that is, every thing which is to be found in the great 

 world : And therefore he is very properly called by the antients a 

 IVIicrocofm, or litlh zvorld*. And thefe four minds in man, I have 

 no doubt, were the famous TgrpaxTuj of the Pythagoreans ; which 

 was thought fo great a myftery of philofophy, that the Pythago- 

 reans fwore by him, who firft difcovered to them the rgxpaxTi/?, 

 *" Eternal Jburce^^ as they faid, '' of evcr-foiving nature '[.'' AuJ thisr 

 may fuffice, by way of recapitulation of what i have faid at great 

 length in the two firft volumes of this work concerning mind, the 

 efficient caufe of all things. 



As to the Material caufe, 1 have treated of it in the fitft chapter of 

 the fecond' book of the firft volume, where I have Ihown that the 

 antients made a diftii:dlion, unknown in modern philofophy, be- 

 twixt matter and body ; for the antients abftradled from body all 

 its qualities, even its dunenfions, in the fame manner as geometers 

 abftradl from figures their furfaces and their lines ; and even from a 

 line its termination, which they call a point, and fay that it has no 

 dimenfions [f. So that, however whimfical this abftradion, made by 

 antient metaphyficians, of matter from body, may feem to be, it is 

 not more whimfical than the abftradion made by geometers of a point, 



or 



Third Perfon of Plato's- Trinhy. And if, further, we fuppofe this Divine Principle 

 to be the author, not only of the motion of all bodies, but of all the aftions of in- 

 telligent beings, fuch as man, then it may be held to be the Third Perfon of the 

 Ghriftian frinity. 



* Vol. II. p. 1 3(5. . 



•j- Ibid, and Vol. III. p. 12.. 

 ^ See Vol. I. p. 50. and 5.1; . 



