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^he Ml croc of m in Man falls naturally to he explained^ after the Can-- 

 fc'itution oj the Great Worlds which is coiifidered in the laji Chapter, 

 — Our Microcofm con/i/ls of the intedeStual^ Animal ^ and Vegetable 

 Minds or Lives ^ and of Body ^ and joined to it the Elemental Lije,^~' 

 Man generally confidered by Philcfophers^ at preftnt^ as one Sub- 

 fiance, conffing of Mind and Body; and thtfe different Minds as no 

 more than Qualities of that Subfance. — ^he Author maintains a dif^ 

 ference of Minds in Man both in their Natures and Operations ^' — 

 and all thefe different from Body, — Our Intellectual Mind ^having the 

 power of a&ing by if elf may exifl by it ft If ;— ana in place of being 

 affifled by the Body in its operations ^ is impeded. — From a comparifon 

 of its operations with thofe of the Animal and Vegetable Lives^ it 

 mti/l be a fubfance different from both. — By. a fimilar comparifon of 

 the energies of the Animal and Vegetable Lives ^ theje Lives proved 

 to be different fubftances from one another^ and not different qua- 

 lities of the fame Mind.. — The Author s doSirine^ of thefe three 

 Minds in Man^ learned from Arifloth. — Arguments^ in favour 

 of an Animal Mind^ from ConcoSiion^ Digefion, and other Ani-* 

 mal funSlions. — To /uppofe all this done without Mind^ is Ma- 

 terial fm. — The operations of the Vegetable^ as little to be account- 

 ed for from Matter and Mechanifn^ as thofc of the Animal; — 

 and a per [on ^ who can believe that to be the cafe of the Vegetable^ 

 may btlisvc that all the operations of Nature proceed from no other 

 caufe. — Similarity betwixt the Conflituiion of Man and that of the 

 Great World^ — His compofition as various as his progrefs from, a 



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