88 ANTTENT METAPHYSICS. Book II. 



And this divifion gives us the form of bodies, as the other gives us the 

 matter of which they are compofed bo that, with rcfped to fub- 

 ftances material, we have all the variety in the fyftem of the uni- 

 verfe that can be imagined. 



As to immaterial fubftances, or minds, we have alfo, in the fyflem 

 of the univerfe, all the variety that is poflible; for there is the intel- 

 le£tual mind, the animal and vegetable minds, and that mind which 

 only moves bodies in certain directions. By this lad mind bodies 

 are moved upwards as fire is, downwards towards the centre of the 

 earth, as all bodies are, organized or unorganized, or in the line in 

 which the body is impelled ; and, laftly, there is a mind by which 

 bodies are moved towards one another, or by which they are mov- 

 ed from one another, which tv^'O motions are commonly called a/- 

 tra&ion or rcpidfion : So that in minds, as well as in bodies, there is 

 in the univerfe all the variety that can be imagined. 



Thofe minds and bodies, fo many and fo various, are not only 

 all contained in the fyftem of the univerfe, but all fo intimately join- 

 ed and conneded together, that there is not one thing in the uni- 

 verfe that is not contained in another thing, or does not contain 

 fome other thing. And the things that do contain other things are 

 alfo contained in them: That is to fay, what produces another thing, 

 does virtually contain that thing, even before it is produced ; and 

 after it is produced, it is a&ually contained in that thing. Thus, 

 for example, the fpecies 7)ian is virtually contained in the genus <?«/- 

 inal, and would have been fo contained, if the fpecies man had ne- 

 ver exifted ; but when that fpecies exifts, then the genus animal is 

 ^&ually contained in it. The fame is the cafe with refpedl to the 

 "individual man : The fpecies virtually contains that individual^ and 

 contained him before he exifted j but after he exifted, the fpecies is 

 aSiually contained in him *. 



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* See p. 6 1, of this volume. 



