A N T I E N T 



ETAPHYSICS 



BOOK I. 



THE HISTORY OF MAN. 



CHAP. L 



Of the difficulty of defining Man.— 777zj difficulty arifes from its be- 

 ing neceffary to define ivhat he is by Nature. — Arifiotle the only 

 author ivho has defined Man. — His definition explained, and the 

 full definition given tranfiated into Englifjy. — All the operations of 

 the Human Mind, the animal as ivell as the intelleoiual, proceed 

 from Comparifon. — 7 he ivonderful chain of things in Nature, to be 

 feen in the progrefs of the Human Mind — This definition of Man 

 not intelligible to thofe ivho have fiudied only the Philofophy of Mr 

 Locke. — Ihe author s apology for pretending to teach a better phi- 

 lofophy than any that has been invented in modern times, — The 

 propriety of defining Man by his comparative faculty and the ca- 

 pacity of intelleB and fcience. — Nothing faid of the Body cf Man 

 in the definition ;-^nor has Anfiotk any "where elfe faid that hs is 



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