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its attributes, 275. his distinction be-
tween the animal faculties, which want
a corporeal organ, and those which want
none, 283. compares the soul to a pilot,
ibid. his idea after what manner the
magnitudes of beings were limited, 305.
his notion of generation and dissolution,
321. makes one faculty equal to the dis-
cernment of two contrarieties, 332. makes
energy prior to power, 333. enumerates
the six species of motion, 362. his ex-
tensive use of the term yvwσis, "know-
ledge," 370. supposes a bound to human
actions in the final cause, 380.
Arithmetic finds its subject in quantity,
307.
Arrangements, the necessity of them, 252,
255. their extensive utility, 253, 381,
383. a method of arrangement proposed,
255. rejected, and why, 256. another
method proposed, 256-258. adopted,
and why, 258. why called Philosophical
Arrangements, ibid. different names given
them by the ancients, 257, 258. how the
Greek logicians divided and formed their
speculations upon this subject, 258. were
followed by the Latins, who added names
of their own coining, ibid. force of ar-
rangement in the intellectual world, 308,
349, 350. in the visible world, 349. ar-
rangements or categories lead us from
the contemplation of body to that of
mind, 381. teach us how to place our
ideas in proper order, ibid. are connected
with, and introduce speculations of every
species and character, ibid. shew the
coincidence of many theories ancient and
modern, 382. indicate the union between
taste and truth, 383. trace and teach the
source of subordinate arts and sciences,
ibid. enable us to adjust their compara-
tive value, 258, 383. to the doing of this
no particular science is equal, and why,
258, 384.

Arrian. See Epictetus.

Arrogance, a cause of it, 258, 384.
Arts, how limited each particular one, 258.
art, what it is, what it is not, 278, 296.
a difference between art and nature, 297.
often ends in giving figure, 298. arts
arise from want, 379. arts of painting,
music, grammar, beholden to contraries,
261, 262. arts of progression and com-
pletion, 250.

Atheism, supposed organs to precede their
use, 284, 285.

Atoms and a void, 261, 349.
Attitudes, their importance to the painter
and statuary, 346. instances from pic-
tures and statues, ibid. attitudes, from
, of sitting in despair, 347. of sitting
mondence, ibid. of conjugal affec-

of Thescelus aiming a javelin,
Path doing the same, ibid. of

humiliation, ibid. of lying extended,
ibid. 348. of sleep and death, ibid. of
Alexander, by Lysippus, 346.
Attraction, 325, 376.

Attribute and substance, general and par-
ticular, 255. attribute divided into its
respective sorts or species, 257. this di-
vision the basis of the whole work, 258.
Augmentation and diminution, 361. See
Motion.

Ausonius, 287.
Axiom, ancient, 332.

Barbarity, when it was the eastern world,
when it was the western world emerged
from it, 324.

Baxter, commentator on Horace, 353.
Beings, why moveable, all but one, 380.
Bessario, cardinal, 319.
Blaiov, see Forced, 368.
Blemmides, 265, 327, 328.
Blenheim house and gardens, 353.
Body, what makes it, 273. triply extended,
ibid. considered as the secondary matter,
ibid. mathematical and physical, how dis-
tinguished, 274.

Bodies, the perfectly similar, though they
have place, have no situation or position,
and why, 343, 346. the same holds as
to bodies perfectly dissimilar, and why,
343. body human, the soul's organ, tool,
or instrument, 329, 373. all body pas-
sive, 376.

Boethius, 253, 254, 255, 330.
Boivinus, 319.

Both, its use in language, 273.
Brown, a genius, 353.
Brutus, 247, 329.

Bulk, sometimes less ascertained, sometimes
more, and why, 305. See Magnitude.

Cæsar, 248, 329, 339.

Calm, in the winds, vnveμía, defined, 378.
calm, in the sea, yaλhun, defined, ibid.
Capacity of power, 330. particular capaci-
ties, various but limited, 331. far distant
from nonentity, ibid. capacity universal,
and privation universal, the characters of
the first or primary matter, 269. cha-
racter of capacity, 330. capacity double
in the human mind, and why, 293. me-
diate and immediate, 294. capacity, two
sorts of, 296. incapacity, 293. capacity,
its actuality, where existing, 366. definite,
though invisible, 365. See p. 267, and
the word Matter.
Casaubon, 248.
Categories, 258, 381.
Cato, 247.

Cause, see Index to Three Treatises.
Causes, 259, 276. invisible causes, seen
through visible effects, 280. final causes
denied by Lucretius, 285. maintained by
Aristotle, Galen, Cicero, 286.

Causative motion. See Metaphysical.
Ceres, a sacrifice to her, described, 383.
Chalcidiu 8,270, 271, 272, 280, 321.
Chance, 285, 286. proves an intelligent
principle, 286. different accounts of it,
340, 341. no cause of the world, and
why, 376.

Change. See Mutation.

Chaos. See Disorder and Night.
Charlemagne, 338, 339.

Charles the First, 339.

Chronicles, 348.
Chrysippus, 382.

Cicero, 247, 249, 280, 284, 294, 310, 319,
324, 340, 348, 353, 356, 369, 371, 377,
382.

Citation. See Quotation.
Coarrangement, 264. account of it from
Varro, ibid.

Coexistence, or together, its modes, or
species, 358, 359. the temporal mode,
358. the essential, 359. the specific, ibid.
coincides with relation, ibid.

Coke, his Institutes, 358.

Colour a quality, 299. why inferior in its

effects to figure, ibid.

Completion, a capacity, 292. completion
and progression, 250.

Consciousness, 370.

Continuous, infinite, place, time, 365.
Contraries, essential to mutation or change,
260. this a general opinion of all philo-
sophers, 261. contraries, their extensive
influence and operation, ibid. 262. a-
dopted by all philosophers, 262. the ne-
cessity of a third being, that they may
pass into each other, 263. contraries in
virtue and vice, and even in vices them-
selves, 300.

Contrariety belongs to quality, but not
universally, 300.

Corinthians, 348. See Scripture.
Cube. See Sphere.

Cyrus, his speech when dying, 280, 283.

Dacier, 383.

Death, 279, 362, 375, 378.
Definition, its requisites, what, 335.
Demetrius, 382.

Democritus, his principles, 261,349. whence
he deduced the variety and specific dif-
ferences in nature, ibid. ingenious remark
of, 350.
Demosthenes, 348.

Disorder and chaos, not prior to order, 334.
Dispositions, tendencies, or progressive
qualities, 294.

Distinction, accurate and exact, its uses,
359.

Divine principle, what it necessarily im-
plies, 286. has nothing passive, 327.

Earth, her relations and duties, 317. why
called "most just," ibid.
Ecclesiastes, 339. See Scripture.
Ecclesiasticus, 265.

Eldos ovoides, explained, 275, 297, 362.
Eidothea, daughter of Proteus, 272.
'Ekoúσtov, defined, 368.
Electric powers, 274, 325.

Elements of beings composite, what, 266,
267. how distinguished from causes, 276.
Empedocles, 285, 290. his sublime verses
on God, 296.

Ends and means, 284, 318. fine speculation
from Pletho, 318.

Eneas, 275, 289, 292, 379.

Energy, what, 333. opposite to power, but
previous, ibid. essential to the course of
events in the universe, ibid. further proof
of its being previous to power, ibid. in-
ference from this doctrine, 334. of what
being energy is the essence, ibid. energy
and capacity, 366.
Enharmonic system, account of it in the
times of Porphyry and Simplicius, 323.
'EvTeλéxeia and dúvaμis, 292, 365.
Epaminondas, 247.

Ephesians, 353. See Scripture.
Epicharmus, 282, 341, 379.
Epictetus, 248, 287, 294, 315, 317, 318,
319, 327, 374.

Epicurus, his idea of human and divine fe-
licity, 285.

'EmoThun, its etymology, 378.

Epigram on the statue of Alexander, 347.
Equal, similar, same, 305, 311, 312.
Eternal and divine, how attained by beings
perishable and corruptible, 279.
Ethics, 257, 293, 294, 295, 296, 300, 315,
316, 326, 327, 332, 371, 374. See the
words Metaphysics and Physics, from
which two, together with Ethics, the il-
lustrations in this treatise are in great
part derived.

Etymology, use made of it by the old Greek
philosophers, 272.
Evander, 379.

Desire moves the body, perception the de- Euclid, 311, 342.
sire, 373.

Desirable and Intelligible, how they move,

and act upon other things, 330.

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Evil, natural and moral, 320. suggestions
and conjectures upon the subject, 230-
322.

Euphemismus, origin and use of this rhe-
torical figure, 348.

Euripides, 320, 348, 374, 382.
Eustathius, 272.
Eustratius, 264.

Exodus, 354. See Scripture.

Experiments, 298, 307, 369.

Extension, figure, organization, the original
forms of body natural, 274.

Fabricius, 250, 261, 382.

Faculties in man, rational and irrational,
326.

Families, their origin, 317.

Fate, chance, applied to the purpose of Pro-
vidence, and a Deity, 341.
Feelings innate, 369.

Fell, quoted, 335, 336, 342.
Figure. See Extension.

Figure, its philosophical idea, as finely ex-
plained by Simplicius, 298. its import-
ance, in consequence, ibid. mathematical,
ibid. imaginary, or fantastic, 299. figure
and number, their importance, 307.
Final causes, their importance, 286. favoured
by Aristotle, 319,380. the end of human
actions, 373, 379.

First philosophy, 257, 290, 296. truly so
called, 356, 380, 381. See also p. 25 to
27, in note.

Fop, what makes one, and why so called,

353.

Forced, how it differs from spontaneous,
368.

Form, lifeless, its character, 264, 265, 273,
275. most simple species, 273. forms
essential, (vulgarly called substantial,)
their importance, 275, 297, 298, 362.
forms animating and efficient, 277. how
they characterize, ibid. soul (in this
sense) a form, ibid. form used in this
sense by Ovid, 278. animating form, its
various efficacies and operations, 279.
forms, intellect the region of, 281. forms,
some inseparable from body, 275. others,
no way connected, 282, 283. charac-
teristic form, 275, 290, 297, 362. its
efficacy in quantity as well as quality,
297, 375.

Fortune, 286, 340. defined, ibid.

Tahun. See Calm.

Gale's Opuscula, 269, 272.
Genera, universal, 258.

Generation and dissolution, 362. how they
differ from other motions, ibid.
Generation of things, how maintained, 320,
362. that and dissolution alternately pre-
pare the way for each other, 320, 321.
Genesis, 260, 379. See Scripture.
Genius, what, 296, 309.
Gentleman, his education, what it appears
to want, to render it complete, 307.
Genius and species, formed within us spon-
taneously and originally, 253, 254. ge-
nera, fewer than species; species, than
individuals, 254.
Geometry, finds its subject in quantity,

307.

George Gemistus. See Pletho.

God, the Supreme Agent, 281. knows no
proficiency, being ever perfect, 296. pure
mind, ibid. father of all, 322. universal
object of desire to all things, ibid. pure
energy of simple intellect, 326, 328. ad-
mits nothing passive, 327. his essence,
energy, 334. ever the same, immutable,
perfect, ibid. immoveable, 330, 379, 380.
fate and chance, subservient to his di-
vine attributes, 341. marvellous arrange-
ment of all being within the Divine
Mind, 350.

Good, all good, truth, 374. good intel-
lectual, its superior value, ibid. 375.
good absent leads to want; want to in-
dustry, arts, &c. 379. good, passes
through the predicaments, and assumes,
as it passes, different denominations, 340.
good real or apparent moves all desires,
373. its effect, whether obtained or not,
analogous to motion circular, ibid.
Gravitation, attraction, 376.

Greeks, modern, short account of their
controversy about Plato and Aristotle,
319.
Grotius, 248.

Habit, or being habited, what it is not,
what it is, 351, 352. its ends, protection,
352. distinction, ibid. decency, ibid.
ornament, ibid. beauty and elegance of
dress or habit, where to be found, ibid.
where it never existed, 353. excess in
attention to it, what character it consti-
tutes, ibid. the Trojans abused on its
account, ibid. metaphorical uses of the
word, ibid. force of its privation, in the
way both of compassion and contempt,
354. privation of it sometimes indicates
reverence, ibid.

Habits, intellectual and moral, 295.
Habitude, reciprocal, 312.
Hampden, 339.

Hand, the organ of organs, why, 281, 282.
its fingers, their power and efficacy, 278.
Happiness, an account of it by the Stoics,
374.

Harmony, in music, 261. in the world,
ibid. 315. between the visible world and
the invisible, 278. of strength and beauty
in a perfect body, 383.
Helvidius Priscus, 248.

Hen. Steph. Poesis Philosophica, 296.
Heraclides Ponticus, 272.
Heraclitus, 262, 321.
Herbert, lord, 248.
Hercules, 326.

Hermes, quoted, 254, 270, 277, 287, 290,
300, 303, 307, 309, 327, 330, 348, 349,
355, 360, 368, 378, 379.

Hierocles, 357.

Homer, 254, 272, 287, 292, 300, 311,
314, 316. joined with Shakspeare, 216.
quoted, 321, 339, 347, 348, 358.

Horace, 272, 287, 293, 294, 296, 302, 304,
316, 324, 325, 327, 340, 347, 348, 350,
353, 357, 369, 378, 381, 383.

Iamblichus, 253, 310, 325.

Idea, that of motion not a simple one, but
complicated with many others, 365.
Ideas innate, none, 369, 370.
Immobility, 330, 380.
Immortal and divine, 283.
Immortality, 283, 284, 377.

Impulse, spontaneous, 368, 373. how caused,
ibid. impulse of appetite, 371. of anger,
ibid. of reason, ibid.

Individuals, infinite, 254. how made ob-

jects of science, 254, 255, 306. what
Boethius and Aristotle thought of them,
254.

Infinite, how made an object of science,
254, 306. connected with motion, how,
364.

Innate feeling, 369.

Instincts, 293. exist, though not innate
ideas, 369.

Intellect human, a rasa tabula, why, 284,
370.

Intellect and science, a capital distinction
between the faculties of each, 294.
transcendent objects of intellect, peculiar
to itself, 282.

Intelligence; pure, 283.

John of Salisbury, account of him, 382.
Joints and muscles, 345.

Julius Cæsar, 329, 339.
Juvenal, 383.

Knowledge, partial, an effect, or consequence
of, 258, 384.

Lanx satura. See Satura.

Leo the Xth, 324.

Life, social and civil, 291, 318.

Life, to live, (v,) what it is, and how far
it extends, 372.

Like and unlike, the property of quality,
300. explained, 301, 312.

Line, superficies, solid, 273.
Lintel and threshold, derive their name
and even their essence from position, 346.
Livy, 324.

Logic, natural, what, 251. whether an organ
to philosophy, or a part of it, 254, 255.
something progressive, that is, to carry
us on, 251.
Longinus, 382.
Lucilius, 383.

Lucretius, 275, 285, 287, 365.
Luke, Saint, 339.

Lyttleton, late lord, an anecdote from him,
353.

Lysippus, his statue of Alexander, 346.

Macbeth, excellence of that tragedy in a
view to its moral, 316,

Macrobius, 377.

Magnitude, limited by nature in every
species, and where there is an unusual
defect or excess, the being becomes a
monster. See Bulk.
Mahomet and Omar, 324.

Man, offspring of God, 322. social, 291.
rational, 325. possessed of appetite and
reason, and the agent of moral actions,
326. a compound, and how, 328. whence
entitled to praise and dispraise, 332.
the specific positions of his body have
reference to its specific extensions, 345.
the number of these last, six, and why,
ibid. man has instincts, but no innate
ideas, 369. a microcosm, and why, 372.
man has more faculties than brutes;
brutes more than vegetables, 328, 329,
372.

Manuscript, Greek, corrections from, 297.
quoted in a large extract, 318.
Many and one, 262, 309.
Marcus Antoninus, 248, 315.
Mathematical body, how it differs from
natural, and how it distinguishes in con-
sequence the mathematician from the
naturalist, 274.

Matter, preparation to prove its existence,

262, 263, &c. its character, as opposed
to form, 267, 298. seen in privation and
capacity, 267. matter, secondary or im-
mediate, and primary or remote, 268.
necessity of such a being's existence,
269. two methods of comprehending it,
271. inseparable from its attributes, 275.
purely passive, 281, 328. dissimilarly
similar to the Deity, 281. essential to
generation,322. See Matter, in the Index
to Hermes; and Form, in the Index to
Three Treatises.

Maximus Tyrius, 279, 282.

Means lead not to ends, but ends to means,
284.

Measures, both measure and are measured,
254, 341. measures of place, deduced
from the human body, 338. of time, from
the heavens, ibid.
Medea, 382.

Medicine and cookery, how those arts re-
semble each other, 297.
Menage, a story from him, 360.
Menander and Philemon, 339.
Metaphysical, meaning of the word, 368,
380.

Metaphysics, 289, 294, 296, 308, 309, 318,
319, 320, 321, 322, 326, 327, 328, 329,
330, 332, 333, 334, 340, 341, 349, 350,
356, 368-380. See the words Ethics,
Physics, and Motion.

Milton, his character, a mixed one, of an

active and a speculative kind, 248. quoted,
ibid. 288, 289, 301, 302, 324, 325, 326,
340, 347, 361, 378.

Mind, the form of forms, 232. region of

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