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as all the fpeciefes are in the genus, from which they are derived : 

 And God is in all things produced from him, and adually not vir- 

 tually, in the fame manner as the genus is in the fpecies; for the 

 fpecies man is virtually in the genus animal^ but that genus is aSiu-- 

 ally in man, who could not exifl if he was not an animal. By what 

 I have faid of the Deity being acttually in all things, I would not be 

 underilood to mean, that his whole attributes are in any particular 

 thing, but that fome portion of intelligence, or of the fpirit of life 

 and animation, is adually in every thing that he has produced, that 

 is, in every thing in the univerfe. 



From what I have faid, I think it is evident, that the ideas of Pla- 

 to, conneded with the dod.rine of the Trinity, make the moft com- 

 plete fyftem of the univerfe that it is pofRble to imagine. All the 

 things in the univerfe are divided into genufes, fpeciefes, and indi- 

 viduals: 'I he genufes contain the fpeciefes, and the fpeciefes the in- 

 dividuals ; and ail of them derived, by a regular progreffibn, from, 

 one Firfi. Caufe. The number of them muft be by us incomprehen- 

 fible: But they cannot be infinite, becaufe, if that were the cafe, the 

 univerfe could not be a fyftem ; for of the inji?iite there are na 

 bounds or livmits, and confequently no fyftem. But though we cannot 

 number the individual things exifting in the univerfe, nor even the 

 fpeciefes, we can give a number to the genufes, by reducing them 

 to ten clafles, or Categories^ as Ariftotle calls thera. This was done 

 by a Pythagorean philofopher, called Archytas, who has entitled his 

 work, very properly, Of the Whole of Things ; and indeed it is the 

 grandeft and moft comprehenfive work of philofophy, that ever 

 was written *. From thefe moft general ideas, or tmiverfals^ as 

 they may be properly called, are derived, in long order, all the fe- 

 veral inferior genufes, the fpeciefes under them, and the individuals 



under 



* See what I have further faid of this great clifcovcry in p. 1 70. of this vol, and- in 

 the paffage there referred to from vol. 4. 



