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deal of nhat kind. But Ariftotle was the firft man in Greece that 

 gave a form to philofophy, and made a fyftem of it ; of which he 

 treated under iive heads, Logic, Morals, Polity, Phyfics, and Me- 

 taphyfics, which comprehend every fubjed: of philofophy; and up- 

 on each of thefe we have writin^gs of his flill preferved, among very 

 many that have been loft. 



He begins his philofophy very properly with logic, which, by the 

 antients, is called an organic art, and not improperly, as it prepares 

 the organ by which all arts, fciences, and philofophy, are cultivated; 

 I mean the intelied ; the operations of which he has defcribed very 

 accurately, and diredled them. To this work he has given the title 

 o^ Analytics ; and it is an analyfis of all the fubjeds upon which the 

 human intelled: operates, and the moft wonderful analyfis that ever 

 was made. The analyfis of the material part of language, I mean 

 the pronunciation of it, into its elemental founds, was a great dif- 

 covery; and fuch a difcovery as has not been made by the many 

 barbarous nations, w'ho have" the ufe of language, and fpeak very 

 well, not only in private converfation, upon the common bufintfles 

 of life, but in public affemblies upon the affairs of ftate. The ana- 

 Ivfis of language, confidered as fignificant, into what is called the 

 parts of fpeech, was alfo a great difcovery, and was made only by 

 nations far advanced in civility and arts. And what 1 think a greater 

 difcovery than either of thefe, the analyfis of mufic into its elemen- 

 tal notes, and in that way forming a gamut or fcale of mufic, was 

 invented only in the parent country of all arts and fciences, Egypt. 

 But the greateft difcovery, and moft wonderful analyfis that ever 

 was made, is the analyfis of all the fubjeds of human thought that 

 are to be feen in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or, in 

 fhort, that are to be found in the world of nature, or in that world 

 of art which man may be faid to have created. And not only are 

 the cbjeds themfelves analyfed and diftinguifhed from one another, 



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