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here we have the moft intimate connexion betwixt each of the high- 

 eft genufes and all the fuhaltern genufes. And this holds not only 

 with refpe£l to fubftance, as in the inftance 1 have given, but alfo 

 w^ith refped to the qualities or properties of fubft inces. Thus, for 

 example, from the Category of qiuinlity there are deduced two fub- 

 alcern genufes, quantity continuous or magnitude^ and quantity def- 

 crete or number. Now, both tliefe are virtually contained in the 

 Category of quantity., and likevviie aElually contain it ; for botli mag~ 

 nitudc and numbtr are virtually contained in quantity, being derived 

 from it, and do aclnally contain it. 



In this manner the genufes are conneded with one another, tlic 

 higher with the lower: And in the fame manner each fpecies is con- 

 nedled with its genus ; for each genus virtually contains its fpecies, 

 and is a&ually contained in it. Thus the genus animal virtually 

 contains man^ which proceeds from it: And man actually contains 

 animal; for othcrwife he could not be man. 



The fpeciefes of things have not been numbered, as the higheft 

 genuies have been: But we are not for that to believe that tiiey are 

 infinite in number ; for in a perfedl fyfiem, fuch as that of the uni- 

 verfe, nothing can be without bounds or meafure. And this 1 ap- 

 plv even to the individuals of the lowett ipeciefes: For though thefe 

 be infinite with refped to our capacity, and therefore incapable of 

 being numbered by us, they are, 1 am perfuaded, not of nuinber 

 infinite, any more than the genufes and fpeciefes, bur >try vnuch 

 more numt-rous: For, as the univerfe itfelf is not infinite, there carl 

 be nothing infinite or without bounds in it} and, belides, in a body 

 of limited d mcnfions, fuch as our earth, there could not be room 

 for an infinite numlier of individuals of any o\^c fpecies, much left 

 for an infinite nu nbc>- of individuals of all the fpeciefes. T'lv fe in- 

 dividuals are fo united with the fpecies to wliich they belong, that 



each 



