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Iikas with Senfations ; — and of the difference betwixt "Sovg and 

 ETi(rlr,u,ti. — Our progrefs in Knowledge from the one to the other^ 

 till we c me to Science, the greatejl i^ork of Intelligence. — No Pro- 

 grefs of this kind in the Divine Mind, who fees all things intuitively. 

 — This faculty, in fame degree, we po/Jefs in comprehending Axioms 

 and Self-evident Propofidons. — The fenfc of the Beautiful a quality 

 of the Divine Mind. — The Beautiful confifls in Syjlcm — and is per- 

 ceived by the Intelle£l otdy. — Of this quality we alfo participate; — 

 // is the governing Principle in us ; — is often thwarted by the 

 paffions cf our animal nature ; — mnfl be per tell in the Supreme Be- 

 ing. — The contemplation of it his great ef happinefs. 



IN the preceding Book I have deniondrated that God exifts, and 

 have endeavoured to explain his nature; and, thoUj.!fh creatures 

 of our finite capacity cannot comprehend the Supreme excellency 

 of the fubftances of which he is compofed, yet I think I have 

 fliown it to be no incomprehenfible myllery, that thefc three fub- 

 ftances fhould make only one being. If it were incomprehenfible 

 we could not comprehend our own exiftence: For, as I have fliown, 

 we have three minds, the Intelledual, the Animal, and Vegetable, 

 which make but one being, that is man. I have further fhown, that 

 every thin"- in nature, even every individual thing, is one in many, 

 I have alfo fhown, that the union of feveral things to form one 

 being, is agreeable to the general analogy of nature, according to 

 which every individual thing is one of many. I have likewife fhown, 

 that the exiftence of Deity is proved in the only way that the ex- 

 iftence of any being can be proved, even our own exiftence, that is 

 by his works, and particularly by his being the author of all the 

 motions of the univerfe, by which the whole bufinefs of nature is 

 carried on. By this the reader muft not und^rftand my meaning to 

 be, that all bodies are immediately and directly moved by the Su- 

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