io6 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book III. 



CHAP. V. 



Man is not a complete Animal ivbile he is in the Natural Statc^ 

 not having the ufe of In tell eel, — In the Civil fed State he is 

 completely a Man^ and is a Microcofm, having in hiuifelf what- 

 ever is in the Great World. — 7 he Civilijed State liable to many 

 errors. — Thefe errors only to be prevented by his knowing liim- 

 felf. — This knowledge to be learned J'rom books of Antient Phi- 

 lofophy. — By this Learning our Governing Principle is formed,^ 

 How the Government of our Little World is to be carried on^ our 

 Modern Philofophers have not taught us; but it is to be learned in 

 Antient Books. — The governing power does not perform all the 

 operations^ but only dircBs them. — // is chiefly by the Animal Mind 

 that they are performed. — The Organs of it are Nerves^ Mufcles^ Si- 

 news, and Bones — which are all moved by our Mind. — This a 

 wonderful operation of Mind. — Upon the action of our ^Animal Life^ 

 and the motion of our Bodies, depend the operations of the other two 

 Minds, the Vegetable and the Elemental. — To be confidered how the 

 Subjedls of this Kingdom, within our Cloths, obey their Sovereign : 

 Is it willingly or unwillingly P — The Vegetable and Elemental 

 Minds obey without any knowledge of what they do ;-^ but the Ani- 

 ?nal Mind hearkens to rea/on; though it has not reafon in itfelf. — 

 The Animal Mind of the Brute is moved by different defires, and 

 deliberates which of them hefhall comply with. — But the Brute has 

 71 ot reafon,- and that makes the difference betwixt him and Man, 

 "—If reafon in Man judges wirong, then is the Man ivicked.-^- 

 He is weak., if his reafon does not judge wrong., but is only over- 

 come by his animal defires: — But if bis animal life J ubmits willing- 

 ly, then he is a happy Man, 



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