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it has a quite different efFe(9:, and that it makes the univerfe of/e as 

 much as it is pofTible to conceive a fubjedl confifting of fuch a p o- 

 digeous number of various things, or indeed any fubjedl confifting of 

 different things. I have aheady (hown * that every thing in the uni- 

 verfe contains or is contained in fome other thing ; and I have add- 

 ed f that fome things both contain and are contai-:ed in other things: 

 But I will here make the propofition univerfal, and fliow that all 

 things contain and are contained in other rhip.^;;^ in '.his manner : 

 For all things arc divided into genufes, fpecicfes, an." individu ils. 

 Na'v every genus contains under it ipcciefcs, othervvil..- .^ vi'oUiO be 

 no genus ; each of thcfc fpecicfes contJiin;-; the genus to wh.ch ftiey 

 belong, otherwife they would not be ot th.i* genus ; and every inili- 

 vi-iual is contained in the fpecies to which it i;ciongs, and likewifc 

 contains that fpecies, otherwife it would not be of that fpecies. 



To illuft:rate this by an example : The genus animal contains all 

 the animals on this earth ; which muft be contained in tliat genus, 

 otherwife they would not be animals, that is, beings fenfuive : This 

 genus contains many fpecicfes ; each of which not only is contained 

 in the genus animal^ but alfo contains that genus, otherwife it would 

 not be a fpecies of it : Again, every one of thefe fpecicfes contains 

 individuals, and every individual contains the fpecies of which it is 

 an individual ; fo that man contains both the genus animal and the 

 fpecies of animal i?itelligent, and is containeJ in the genus animal 

 and in that fpecies of it. Now it is impofhble to conceive a clofer 

 union of things than that by which they both contain and are con- 

 tained in one another ; an union fo dole, that it would not be in- 

 telligible without the diftinclion, as 1 have clfcwhcre faid :{:, oi con- 



T t 2 taining 



* Pp. 8S& 95 of this Vol. 



-j- Ibid. p. 90. 



i Ibid. p. 81. 



