145 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book III. 



CHAP. IX. 



Cotitimtalion of the Eulogiim of Ariftotle, — Many Philofophers before 

 Jjlffi — Jjut he frf gave a firm to Philofophy^ and reduced it to five 

 heads, Logic, Morals, Politics, Phyfcs, and Metaphyfics. — Logic 

 prepares the Human Intellecl for cultivafuig the others, and is 

 therefore called an Organic Art. — It analyfes the fuhje5ls upon 

 ivhich intelleSi operates. — l^his analyfis compared with that of the 

 matter of Language i?ito Elemental Sounds, the form of Language 

 into parts of fpeech, and Mific into the gamut; — and f Down to 

 be more wonderful than all thefe. — Invention begins with the com- 

 , pound, and reduces it by fyllogifm into propofitions,'—and thefe into 

 fimple terms, — Here analyfis ends and Teaching begins, — Arijlo- 

 tk''s Loo-ic commences with fimplc terms. — Thefe he reduces to ten 

 claffes, called Categories. — From them he proceeds to propofitions, 

 which comSined, produce Syllogfnu — Of the modes and fgures of 

 fyllogifm. — All Syllogifm reduced to this truth, that the whole is 

 greater than any of its parts, and contains them all. — The great uti- 

 lity of Arifotles Logic. — Without fudying it, no Man can give a 

 rcafonfor his btlicf in any denmijiration. — Infance of this. — Likely 

 that Pontius Pilate had read Ariftotle' s Logic, from the queftion he 

 put to our Saviour, What is TmlW.— Ariftotle got the principles of 

 tJj'is Jyfcm of Logic from the books of the Pythagoreans, — and the 

 Pythagoreans had it from Egypt. —It went alfo to India from 

 Egypt. — Before Arifotle, the Philofophers of Greece did not know 

 what Science was.— They tfcd the Dialectic Art, explained by 

 Ariftotle in his Toipks.— His fyjlem of Diakaic a great effort of 



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