CONTENTS. 



gamut J and (hown to be more wonderful man all thefe. — Invention begins with the 

 compound, and reduces it by rfllogifm into propofitions,— and thefe into fimplc 

 terms.— Here analyfis ends, and teaching begins.— Ariftotle's Logic commences with 

 fimple terms.— Thefe he reduces to ten claflls, called Catego, Us.— Vroni them he 

 proceeds to propofitions, which combined produce fyllogifm.— Ot the modes and 

 figures ot oyllogilm — All Syilogifm reduced to this truth, that the whole is great- 

 er than any ol its parts, and contains them all —1 he great u.ility of ArilVotle's Lo- 

 gic — Without Undying it, no Man can give a realon for his belief in any demon- 

 llration.— Inftance of this.— Likely that I'ontius Pilate had read Ariftotle's Logic, 

 from the queftion he put to our Saviour, H'ljat is Truth ? — Ariftotle got the princi- 

 ples of this iyfteni of Logic from the books ot the P*ythagoreans, — and the Py- 

 thagoreans had it from Egypt— It went alfo to India from Egypt Before Arifto- 

 tle, the Philolophers of Greece did not know what Science was. Ihey uled the 



D'laleBk Art, explained by Ariftotle in his TciorVj-.— His fyftem of Dialeftic a great 



efFort of Genius. — Difference betwixt it and the Demonftr^tive Syllogifm. His 



Morals fpoken of in the laft chapter. — Ariftotle's Politics a pradlical Science, form- 

 ed from the ftudy of the Governments of many ftates ; — a wonderful knowledge 

 here difplayed. — His Phyftcs contain a divifion, unknown to Modern Philofophers, 

 betwixt the Hiftory and Philofophy of Nature — Praife of his Hiftory of Animals. 

 — The fubjedt of his Natural Philofophy, Body animated. — In every Body an imma- 

 terial principle or idea of the thing. — Metaphyfics treat of the firft prin- 

 ciples of things. — It fupplies the defers of, inferior Sciences. — This exempli- 

 fied in Geometry and Arithmetic— Ariftotle has faid little of Theology, the 

 higheft part of Metaphyfics, and the fummit of Human Knowledge.— He was ne- 

 verthelefs a genuine Theift. — His Philofophy deficient in this branch compared with 

 Plato's. — But Plato was inftrud\ed in Egypt both in Divinity and the Do(5lrine of 

 Ideas, and alfo in the anteredent and future States of Man. — By thele States the fyf- 

 tem of Man reconciled with the Wifdom and Goodnefs of God. — Praife of Arifto- 

 tle's Poetics and 7?/jf/(?r;V,— particularly of the Poetics — The number of his writinps 

 in bur a fliort life of 63 years, and part of it fpent in educating the Conqueror of the 

 World, amazing.— His induftry and application as wonderful as his Genius and 

 Learning. p, j ^^_ 



CHAP. X. 



No Modern Philofopher has diftirguiflied betwixt the operations of our Intcllc£l in 

 forming Ideas and in comparing them together.— The knowledge of this diftindtion 

 necefTary for knowing what Man is — The defign of Ariftotle's Logic being to (how 

 what Science and Truth are, the ftudy of Logic preparatory to the ftudy of Philofo- 

 phy — Mr Lockc'^ Efiay on the Human Underftanding, our only bonk of Logir in 



Englifh. — Imperfe«n:ions of that work on the operations of the Difmrfus Mentis 



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