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pacity of intelled, which they have not : But when, in the civilif- 

 ed life, he has acquired intelligence in energy and a&uality^ he then 

 becomes the moft various animal that is on this earth, or can well 

 be conceived ; for then will apply to him what Horace fays, 



.- quot capitum vivunt, totidcm fludiorum 



Millia, Lib. 2. Sat. i. v. 27. 



So that he is not only an animal, very various in his original compo-- 

 fition, confifting of three minds, the intelledlual, the animal, and the 

 vegetable, and of body; and whofe progrefs, from that ftate to the 

 civilifed life, is very wonderful ; but when he is become a member 

 of civil fociety, he is ftill more various and more dillinguifhed in. 

 that way, from other animals on this earth, than in any of the pre- 

 ceding ftates. He is, therefore, in every refpe6t, the moft various 

 and the moft wonderful animal on this earth, and who therefore 

 ought to be ftudied moft diligently by the philofopher, as a fubje^fe 

 of the greateft curiofity, even if he were not fo intimately conneded 

 with him; fo intimately, that while he ftudies him, he ftudies him- 

 felf, and fo acquires the moft valuable of all knowledge, being the 

 foundation of every other knowledge ; I mean the knov/ledge of 

 himfelf. 



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