Oiap. III. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 79 



CHAP. III. 



Of the Svjlem of the Uiiiverfc. — There can be no Sjftem of Individual 

 Things -without order and arrangement. — All Things in the Uni- 

 verfe confi/l of Genufes^ Speciefes^ and Individuals. — Thfe have 

 the mofl intimate connedion with one another^ the Gcmfes being 

 Adually comprehended in the Species^ and Virtually comprehending 

 them; — and upon this conneBion the Science of Logic depends. — 11- 

 iuf ration of this by Subftance, Body, Animated Body, and Animal. 

 -—The ten Categories of Archytas the highejl Genujes^ and the 

 bounds of the Univerfe. — Excellence of Archytas's work. — Of the 

 connexion of the parts of the Univerfe with one another. — 

 The higher Genufes both contain and are contained in the lowier, — 

 The fame the ca/e of Spccicfes ; — and alfo of Individuals. — A Syfem 

 not only in Genufes and Species^ but in Individuals, — Conclufion^ 

 The Univerfe is the mof pcrfe6l Sy/lem of Sy/lems. 



HAVING faid fo much of the nature of fyftem in general, and 

 of what is reqaired to make a fyftem, I will now proceed to 

 {how that the univerfe is really fuch a fyftem. And I think I fhall 

 prove it to be the moft perfect fyftem that can be imagined : For I 

 fhall iliow it to be a fyftem of fyftems, all united together, fo as to 

 make but one fyftem, of which every part has a relation to fome 

 other part, fo that there is nothing fmgle or by itfelf. 



If there were nothing in the univerfe but individual things "with- 

 out 



