That we should not therefore think of a blind unconscious operation, like that of Fire here alluded to, the Author had long before prepared us, by uniting Knowledge with natural Efficacy, where he forms the Charac ter of these Divine and Creative Ideas.

But let us hear him in his own Language.—¿^^' ling ἐθέλοιμεν τὴν ἰδιότητα αυτών (sc. Ιδεῶν) ἀφορίσασθαι διὰ τῶν γνωριμωτέρων, ἀπὸ μὲν τῶν φυσικῶν λόγων λάβωμεν τὸ ἀυτῷ τῷ εἶναι ποιητικὸν, ὧν δὴ καὶ ποιέσι· ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν τεχνικῶν τὸ γνωςικόν, ὧν ποιᾶσιν, ἐι καὶ μὴ αὐτῷ τῷ εἶναι ποιᾶσι, καὶ ταύτα ενώσανίες φω μεν αιτίας εἶναι τὰς ιδέας δημιεργικὰς ἅμα καὶ νοερὰς πάντων τῶν κατὰ φύσιν ἀποτελεμένον. But if we should chuse to define the peculiar character of IDEAS by things more known to us than themselves, let us assume from NATURAL PRINCIPLES THE POWER OF EFFECTING, MERELY BY EXISTING, all the things that they effect; and from ARTIFICIAL PRIN CIPLES THE POWER OF COMPREHENDING all that they effect, although they did not effect them merely by existing; and then uniting those two, let us say that IDEAS are at once the EFFICIENT and INTELLIGENT CAUSES of all things produced according to Nature. From book the second of the same Comment.

The Schoolman, Thomas Aquinas, a subtle and acute writer, has the following sentence, perfectly corresponding with this Philosophy. Res omnes comparantur ad Divinum Intellectum, sicut artificiata ad Artem.

The

The Verses of Orpheus on this subject may be found in the tract De Mundo, ascribed to Aristotle, p. 23. Edit. Sylburg.

Zaus ägony yέvero, Zeûs x. r. A.

P. 391.—WHERE All things LIE INVELOPED, &c.]

—ὅσα πές ἐςι ΤΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ κατὰ δή τινα μερισμὸν, τοσαῦτα καὶ ΤΟ ΕΝ ἐκεῖνο πρὸ τῆ μερισμᾶ κατὰ τὸ πάνη ἀμερές· ἐ γὰρ ἓν, ὡς ἐλάχισον, καθάπερ ὁ Σπεύσιππος ἔδοξε λέγειν ἀλλ ̓ ΕΝ NE ПANTA. As numerous as is THE MULTITUDE OF INDIVIDUALS by Partition, so numerous also is that PRINCIPLE OF UNITY by universal Impartibility. For it is not ONE, as a MINIMUM is one (according to what Speucippus seemed to say,) but it is ONE, as being ALL THINGS. Damascius περὶ 'Αρχῶν, MS.

P. 408-THE WISEST NATIONS- -THE MOST COPIOUS LANGUAGES.] It is well observed by Muretus-— Nulli unquam, qui res ignorarent, nomina, quibus eas exprimerent, quæsierunt. Var. Lect. VI. 1.

P. 411--BUT WHAT WAS THEIR PHILOSOPHY ?] The same Muretus has the following passage upon the ROMAN TASTE FOR PHILOSOPHY.- -Beati autem illi, et opulenti, et omnium gentium victores ROMANI, in petendis honoribus, et in prensandis civibus, et in exteris nationibus verbo componendis, re compilandis occupati, philosophandi curam servis aut libertis suis, et Græculis esurientibus relinquebant. Ipsi, quod ab avaritia, quod ab ambitione,

quod

quod a voluptatibus reliquum erat temporis, ejus si par-
tem aliquam aut ad audiendum Græcum quempiam philoso-
phum, aut ad aliquem de philosophia libellum vel legendum
vel scribendum contulissent, jam se ad eruditionis culmen
pervenisse, jam victam a se et profligatam jacere Græciam
somniabant. Var. Lect. VI. 1.

INDEX.

ADJECTI

A

190

DJECTIVE, how it differs from other Attribu.
tives, such as the Verb, and the Participle, 186.
verbal, 187. pronominal, 189. strictly speaking can
have no Genders,
ADVERBS, their character and use, 192 to 194. Ad-
verbs of Intension and Remission, 195. of Compa-
rison, 196 to 199. of Time, and Place, and Mo-
tion, 204, 205. made out of Prepositions, 205. Ad-
verbs of Interrogation, 206. affinity between these
last, and the Pronoun relative, 206 to 208. Adverbs
derived from every Part of Speech, 209. found in
every Predicament, 210. called by the Stoics
Πανδέκτης,
ASCHINES,

-

ibid.

419

357

ALEXANDER APHRODISIENSIS, 294, 310, 433. his Ac-
count of Phansy or Imagination,
ALEXANDER and THAIS, 71. his influence upon the
Greek Genius,

AMAFANIUS,

419, 420

412

AMMONIUS, his account of Speech, and its relations, 4.
of the Progress of human Knowledge from Complex
to Simple, 10. of the Soul's two principal Powers, 17.
of the Species of Sentences, ibid. his notion of Gon,
55. quoted, 59. his notion of a Verb, 87, 193. his
notion of Time, 100. illustrates from IIomer the Spe-
cies of Modes or Sentences, 145. quoted, 154. his
notion of conjunctive Particles, and of the Unity
which they produce, 241. quoted, 278. his account
of Sound, Voice, Articulation, &c. 321, 328. of

the

'the distinction between a Symbol and a Resemblance,
331. what he thought the human Body with respect
to the Soul, 334. his triple order of Ideas or Forms,

382

Analysis and Synthesis, 2, 3, 367. analysis of Cases, 275,

APOLLONIUS, the Grammarian, explains the Species of
Words by the Species of Letters, 27. his elegant
name for the Noun and Verb, 33. quoted, 63. his
idea of a Pronoun, 65, 67. quoted, 70. explains the
Distinction and Relation between the Article and the
Pronoun, 73, 74. his two Species of Autis or Indi-
eation, 77. holds a wide difference between the Pre-
positive and Subjunctive Articles, 78. explains the
nature of the Subjunctive Article, 80. corrects Homer
from the doctrine of Enclitics, 84, 85. his notion of
that Tense called the Præteritum perfectum, 129.
holds the Soul's disposition, peculiarly explained by
Verbs, 141. his notion of the Indicative Mode, 151.
of the Future, implied in all Imperatives, 155. ex-
plains the power of those past Tenses, found in the
Greek Imperatives, 156. his idea of the Infinitive,
165. his name for it, 166. quoted, 168, 175. his
notion of middle Verbs, 176. quoted, 179, 181, 195.
explains the power and effect of the Greek Article,
217 to 222. holds it essential to the Pronoun not to
/coalesce with it, 225 to 228. shews the different
force of the Article when differently placed in the
same Sentence, 231. quoted, 238, 239, his idea of
the Preposition,

261

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