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nothing in it without Syftem ; for which reafon I have fald that it 

 is a SyRein of Syftems *. In this Appendix 1 will endeavour to ex- 

 plain the nature of this wonderful Syftem containing fo many other 

 Syftems, and to fhovv that it is one Syftem, of which all the ieveral 

 parts are wonderfully connected together. 



The extent and the variety of this fyftem is wonderful ; for it 

 comprehends all fubftances material and immaterial, and all their 

 qualities. As to immaterial fubftances, it comprehends all the minds 

 that can be conceived to exift : Firft minds intelledual, at the head 

 of which is the Supreme Mind, the author of the whole fyftem ; 

 2dly, Intclledual minds of an inferior degree; 3dly, Animal minds; 

 Athly, Vegetable minds ; and, laftly, thofe minds which move unor- 

 ganized bodies. It contains alfo all the bodies upon which thofe 

 minds operate, fuch as the elements of earth, air, fire, and water ; 

 all the bodies of animals and vegetables, and all the bodies un- 

 organized as well as organized ; in ftiort, all the minds and all the 

 bodies any where exifting, or that can be conceived to exift. 



Such a prodigious number of things, (which might be called infi' 

 li'ite^ if there could be any thing infinite in a fyftem, fuch as that of 

 the univerfe, or indeed in any fyftem), and fo various in their na- 

 tures, would have made a mafs of things and a perfedl chaos, if 

 they had not been arranged and divided into certain clafles ; which is 

 done by the divifion of things into genufes, fpeciefes, and indivi- 

 duals. This divifion therefore is univerfal ; and accordingly there is 

 nothing in nature that is not either a genus, a fpecies, or an indivi- 

 dual of fomc fpecies. 



At firft fight this divlGon of things would appear to make the 

 univerfe not one, but vuviy diilcrent things. But I iliall fhow that 



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