212 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book III. 



State of Nature to Civility^ Arts^ and Sciences. — He is, therefore^ 

 the mojl Wonderful Animal on Earth, and the nioji deftrving the 

 attention of the Philofophcr, 



IN the preceding chapters I have explauied, or at leaft endeavour- 

 ed to explain, the conftitution of the great world or unlverfe. 

 In this chapter, I think, it is proper to give Ibme account of our mi- 

 crocofm, or little world, as it is not improperly called, containing, 

 as it does, every thing in the great world in a certain degree ; for 

 in it there is intellectual life, the animal or fenfitive life, the vege- 

 table life, and body ; and with body, that fort of mind, which is 

 common to all bodies, organifed and unorganifed, and which moves 

 them in a certain direction, fuch as up and down, and which is 

 called by Ariftotle Nature, and by me the Elemental Life. Upon 

 the fubjedt of this wonderful compofition in man, I have faid a 

 good deal elfewhere*, and alfo in this volume f : But, as man is 

 the fubjedt of this part of my work, and as his nature cannot be 

 p( rfedly underftood unlefs we know all the fubftances of his com- 

 pofition, and how they are conneded together, I will here add 

 ibmething more upon the fubje6t. 



It 13, I know, the general opinion of the philofophers of this age, 

 that as man is only one animal, he is but one fubftance, confilling 

 of mind and body; and that thofe three minds, of which 1 fay he is 

 compofed, are truly no more than qualities of one mind ; but, I 

 think, I can demonilrate, that thefe minds are fo different from one 

 another, both in their natures and in their operations, that they muft 

 be diftind fubftances, and not qualities of the fame fubftance, and 

 that each of them muft be diftindl from Body, the fourth article I 

 mentioned of the compofition of man. 



And, firft, as to the intellectual mind : That it is perfectly dif- 

 ferent 

 * Vol. I. Book 2. Chap. 12. t ^^8^ ^'°7' ^"^ following. 



