34 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book I. 



C H A P. IV. 



Entuneration of the different kivds of Mind, and an account of the 

 motions they produce. — I ft. The Elemented Mind — this Mind u?!:- 

 verfal in nature. — 2(1, The Vegetable Mind — /// motions more va- 

 rious. — 3d, The minimal Mind — Senfation peculiar to this Mind. 

 — 4th, The IntelleEltial Mind — Thought, Reafon, ^c. its peculiar 

 attributes. — The other Minds aB only ipith Body — this a6ls 

 •without Body. — Man compo/ed of thefe three kinds of Mind and 

 of Body J — this coinpofttion the famous Tetra&ys of the Pythagore- 

 ans. — Man a Microcofm. — Our IntelleBual Mind, in its prefent 

 fate, impeded by our Body, and the minimal Life, in its operations, 

 — Difference, in this refptSf, betwixt it and the Supreme IntcUe&. 

 —Of the Laws of Motion, according to which the Motions of the 

 Planets are governed. — Thefe prove the truth of the doBrine of the 

 Pythagoreans, that the Univerfe was formed by numbers. — The 

 Science of Mufic formed by numbers afo. 



IN thfc fecond chapter of this book, I think, I have fhown that 

 all the motions in the univeile are originally produced by mind : 

 And as this is fo important a point, not only in the philofophy of 

 rature, but in theology, I think it is proper to enumerate in this 

 ■chapter the different kinds of minds which move body; and to give 

 an account of the feveral motions which they produce. And 1 will 

 begin with the loweft kind of mind, viz. that which, as I have faid, 

 only moves bodies in a certain diredlion; up as in the cafe oi fre\ 

 down as in the cafe of earth, ftones, metals, and fuch like bodies, 

 alfo, bodies that are impelled by other bodies, in the diredion of 



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