CONTENTS. 



the Intelle£lual, Animal, and Vegetable Minds or Lives, and of Body, and joined 

 to it the Elemental Life. — Man generally confidered by Philolbphers, ac prefent, as 

 one Suhjlance. coniifting of Mind and Body; and theft different ?/Iinds as no more 

 than polities of that Subftance. — The Author maintains a difference of Minds in 

 Man both in their Natures and Operations, — and all thcfe different from Body. — 

 Our Intellectual Mind, having the power of adling by itfclf, may exirt by itfelf ; — 

 and in place of being affifted by the Body in its oper^.tions, is impeded. — From a 

 comparifon of its operations with thofe of the Aniiual and Vegetable Lives, it mufl: 

 be a fubftance different from both. — By a fimilar comparifon of the energies of the 

 Animal and Vegetable Lives, thefe L'ves proved to be different fubftanccs from one 

 another, and not different qualities of the fame Mind. — The Author's doftrine, of 

 thefe three Minds in Man, learned from Ariflotle — Arguments, in favour of an Ani- 

 mal Mind, from Conco(5lion, Digeftion, and other Animal fund^ions. — To iuppofc 

 all this done without Mind, is Materialifm — rhe operations of the Vegetable, as 

 little to be accounted for from Matter and Mechanifm, as thofe of the Animal ; — 

 and a perfon, who can believe that to be the cafe of the Vegetable, may believe that 

 all the operations of Nature proceed from no other caufe. — Similarity betwixt the 

 Conflitution of Man and that of the Great World. — His compofition as various as 

 his progrefs from a State of Nature to Civility, Arts, and Sciences. — He is, there- 

 fore, the moft Wonderful Animal on Earth, and the mofl deferving the attention 

 of the Philofopher. p. 212. 



CHAP. XIV. 



Of the Summum Bonum — placed by the Epicureans in Bodily Pieafures, — by the Stoics 

 in Mental, — ^The latter in the right. — The Intelle<n: perceives the t« K«>#y ; — .he 

 contemplation of which, according to the Stoics, is man's only good, — and is what 

 gives delight to the Intelleft. — The Pains and Pleafures of Intellc<ft arifc from Think- 

 ing. — Our thoughts, therefore, to give us Pleafure, mufl have Beauty for their Ob- 

 ject i — and the more Beauty the greater Pleafure. — The Univerfe the mofl Beautiful 

 of all things exifting j — and the perception of its Beauty, as far as our limited capa- 

 city will permit, our greateft Pleafure. — Of the Beauty of our own Works. — By rc- 

 fle^ing on the Wifdom and Goodncfs of fuch, we enjoy, in part, the Pleafure of 

 the Creator of the Univerfe. — The contemplation of our actions, as they are Good 

 or 111, afource of conftant Delight or Pain. — Of the Pleafure derived from the good 

 actions of others ; — of Parents, Relations, and Friends : — The Author's peculiar 

 Happ'nefs in thefe refpc£ls — The Plcafure^of Friendfhip very great. — Of the Pleafure 

 derived from works of Art, Science, and Philofophy. — The fludy of thefe a necef- 

 fary part of the Summum Sonum.-~-Th\s the Exercife of Intelleil : — Epiercife neccffary 



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