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Excerpt from Antient Metaphysics, Vol. 6
Enumeration of the difi'erent kinds of Mind, and an account of the motions they pro duce The Elemental Mind - this Mind univerfal in Nature - 24, The Vege table Mind - its motions more various - 3d, The Animal Mind Senfation peculiar to this Mind The Intelleélual Mind - Thought, Reafon, 8cc. Its peculiar at tributes - The other Minds a& only with Body - this afts without Body. - Man compofed of thefe three kinds of Mind and of Body -this compofition the famous Tetrac'tys of the Pythagoreans. - l\'ian a Microcofm. - Our Intelleeftual Mind, in its prefent fiate, impeded by our Body, and the Animal Life, in its operations. - Dif ference, in this refpec'l, betwixt it and the Supreme Intelle&. - Of the Laws of Mo tion, according to which the Motions of the Planets are governed. - Thefe prove the truth of the doelrine of the Pythagoreans, that the Univerfe was formed by numbers - The Science of Mufic formed by numbers alfo. Page 34.
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