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Genius. — Diffej'ence betwixt it and the Demonjirative Syllogifm, 

 ""-His Morals fpokcn of in the loft chapter, — Arijlotlc s Politics, 

 a practical Science^ — -formed from the fludy of the Governments of 

 many States; — a injonderjul knowledge here dlfplayed. — His Phy- 

 fics contain a divifiony unknown to Modern Philofophers^ betwixt 

 the Hiflory and Philofphy of Nature. — Praife of his Hi/lory of 

 Animals, — ThefubjeSi of his Natural Philofophy^ Body animated. 

 — -In every Body an itnmaterial principle^ or idea of the thing, — INle- 

 taphyfics treats of the frji principles of things. — It f applies the de^ 

 fe&s of ijTperior Sciences, — This exemplified in Geometry and Arith- 

 metic, — Arifotle has faid little of Iheology^ the highefl part of Me^ 

 taphyfics^ and the fummit of Human Knowledge. — He was never^ 

 thelejs a genui?ie Theifl, — His Philofophy deficient in this branch com- 

 pared with Plato'' s. — But Plato was inflrudied in Egypt both in 

 Divinity and the DoElrine of Ideas ^ and alfo in the antecedent and 

 future States of Man : — By thefe States thcfyflem of Man reconciled 

 with the Wifdom and Goodnefs of God, — Praife of Arifotle* s Poetics 

 . ««^ Rhetoric — particularly of the Poetics. — 'The number of his writ' 

 ings, in but a floor t life of 61, years ^ and part of it fpcnt in educat- 

 ing the Conqueror of the World ^ amazing, — His induflry and ap" 

 plicatiofi as wonderful as his Genius and Learning, 



1 Concluded the laft chapter with an eulogium upon Ariftotle's 

 Philofophy of Morals ; and although I have faid a good deal 

 in praife of him, in feveral parts of this work, yet I think my- 

 felf fo much obliged to him for the inftrudtion that I have got 

 from his writings, more than from the writings of all the other phi- 

 lofophers put together, that I will add fomething more to his praife 

 in this chapter. 



Before his time there were many writings in Greece upon diffe- 

 rent fubjeds of philofophy; and his mailer Plato has left us a great 



deal 



