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faid, is compofed of fyftems; and thelc fyftems arc all lb conneded 

 together, as to make a lyftem of fyftems; for that fuch is the 

 cafe, is evident from this, that all things in the univerfc arc cither 

 O'jetai or Xv^^t^riKHToi,^ that \%JubJlauces or accidents: \Yhich laft we 

 commonly exprefs by the word quality ; but the word accident^ as I 

 have elfewhere obferved*, expreffes much better the meaning of the 

 Greek word Zu[/.fii(jr,xora., which imports that the accident muft 

 go along with the fubjlance^ and cannot exift without it. Now, as 

 all things in the univerfe are either Subftance or Accident, and as ac- 

 cidents, as well as fubftances, are divided into fyftems, (for I have 

 ihown, in what I have written on the Categories f, that they are di- 

 vided into n'lnt clafies, confifting of genufes and fpeciefes), the fyf- 

 tems of each of them muft be as neccffarily conneded together as 

 fubftances and accidents are: So that here we have a neceflary 

 connedion of all the fyftems of the univerfe with one another, 

 nidking altogether but one fyftem. — And thus, I think, it is prov- 

 ed, that the univerfe is a fyjitm of fxjltms^ all conneQed together 

 by the moft intimate connedion oi f/ibjlcincc and accident; and that 

 the Parts of thefe feveral fyftems muft be all conneded together 

 in the fame manner as genufes, fpeciefes, and individuals are: So that 

 the fvftem of the univerfe, however many and various its parts ai^, 

 is but one fyftem. The univerfe, therefore, is both one and )nanj; 

 which 1 have fhown to be the cafe, not only of the whole fyftem, 

 but of every particular in it %' — So wonderful is the connexion of 

 things in the univerfe* 



When to all that I have faid of the fyftem of the univerfe we add' 

 another requifite of a fyftem, That there fliould be fomething princi- 

 pal in it, to which every thing elfe is fubordinate, and which is 

 another thing that makes the fyftem one §, it muft make the fyftem 

 tlie moft perfedt that it is poffiblo to imagine. Now this principal 



thing, 



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