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has given us a fyftem of ideas, which, if rightly underflood, I think 

 is moft valuable, as it Ihows that the univerfe is a fyftem, and a moft 

 "wonderful fyftem, and that our ideas are not fidions, and merely 

 the operation of the human mind, but are real entities exifting in 

 nature and diffufmg themfelves over all the univerfe. And, in that 

 chapter, 1 will compare Ariftotle's fyftem of ideas with that of Plato, 

 and fhow how much better the fyftem of the Mafter is than thai 

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