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each individual does adually contain in itfelf every thing that is in 

 the ipecies, or in the genus to which the fpecies belongs: For, as that 

 is eflentially infeparable from the Ipecies, it mull neceflarily go to 

 every individual of the fpecies; as otherwife the individual could 

 not be faid to belong to the fpecies, but muft be a different being. 

 Here, therefore, we have a moft wonderful compofition of all the 

 properties belonging to the feveral genufes of the Category, to which 

 the individual belongs ; for as thefe muft be all in the fpecies, they 

 muft alfo be in the Individual, which otherwife could not be truly 

 faid to be of that fpecies. The individual man^ therefore, muft con- 

 tain in himfelf, as 1 have faid In another place *, every one of the 

 Categories, not only the genus animal^ and the fuperlor genufes of 

 the TO n^-\i\)yp)i, or animated body^ and body^ and fubjianccy but all 

 the feveral Categories mentioned by Ariftotle in his 4th chapter oa 

 the Categories, quantity^ quality^ relation^ &c. 



Thus, I think, I have proved that there is a wonderful compofi- 

 tion and union of things in this material world in which we live ; 

 the higher genufes containing the lower, and being contained in 

 them, which is the clofeft union that can be imagined : And, in the 

 fam'C manner, the feveral fpeciefes are united with the genufes to 

 which they belong. And each of the Categories, and every genus 

 and fpecies under it, make fo many fyftems, all perfedt of their kind, 

 in each of which there is one thing principal and predominant, from 

 which all the other things belonging to the fyftcm proceed, and 

 with which they are intimately conneded. Even every indivi- 

 dual of each of the fpeciefes is itfelf a fyftem, comprehending all 

 that belongs to the fpecies and to the genufes above it; and It is a 

 fyftem, confifting of parts, fome principal and others fuhordinate, 

 arranged in proper order, which is the cafe of bodies organized, fuch 

 ^s animals and vegetables, as is very well known to anatomifts and 

 botanifts. And as we can only judge of the univerfe from what we 



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