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for it is fenfitive, and is thereby diftinguifhed from the two others, 

 whicu only move body, but have no I'enfations. This mind, there- 

 fore, feels pleafure and pain, and conlequently has appetites and de- 

 fires, which prompt it to move the animal body in many different 

 ways, in order to gratify thcfe appetites and dehres. The laft and 

 highefl in tlie order of nature, is the Intelletlual Mind, which, though 

 it direds the movement of bodies, does not immediately and by 

 itfelf move them, but ads without body, thinks, reafons, propofes 

 ends of adlion, and devifes means to accomplilh thcfe ends. And 

 this is the great difference betwixt this fuperior mind and the other 

 minds which I have mentioned, that thefe only adl upon body or with 

 body, and cannot be conceived to adl or cxifl: without body. All 

 thefe minds that I have mentioned are in us; and, with body, make 

 that wonderful little world which we carry about with us, and 

 which is the famous Tir^oLKTug of the Pythagoreans, confifting of 

 the vegetable, the animal, the intelledual minds, and body. '1 his, as 

 I have obferved elfewhere *, was thought by the Pythagoreans fo 

 great a difcovery, made by the author of their fe£t, Pythagoras, 

 that they fwore by him who difcovered this rsT^axTuj, which, they 

 very properlv faid, was the fountain of ever flowing nature ; and, 

 indeed, from it the whole of nat^ure, and all its operations, proceed. 

 And it may be obferved, that, in our compofition, as there is body, 

 there Is alfo that firfl mentioned kind of mind, which is common to 

 all bodies, I mean the mind I call tl.e elemental mind, by which our 

 bodies are moved downwards towards the centre of the earth, or in 

 any direftion in which they are impelled ; fo that every thing, 

 matter or mind, belonging to the great world is in our little world. 

 But in this our fo various compofition, the fourth kind of mind, 

 the intelledual, is imperfect, being difturbed and impeded in its 

 operations by the body and animal life, with which it is connedled 

 in this ftate of its exiilcnce ; but, in tiic fupreme mind, it is in per- 

 fedion: And it mufl neceflarily be fo, as it direds all the ciifferent 



motions 

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