366. And, indeed, what this philofopher in his Phædrus fpeaketh of the fuper-celestial region, and the divinity refident therein, is of a strain not to be relished or comprehended by vulgar minds; to wit, effence realy exiftent, object of intellect alone, without colour, without figure, without any tangible quality. He might very juftly conceive that fuch a defcription muft feem ridiculous to fenfual men. 367. As for the perfect intuition of divine things, that he fuppofeth to be the lot of pure fouls, beholding by a pure light, initiated, happy, free and unftained from those bodies, wherein we are now imprifoned like oysters. But in this mortal ftate, we must be fatisfy'd to make the best of those glympfes b) within our reach. It is Plato's remark in his Theætetus, that while we fit ftill we are never the wifer, but going into the river and moving up and down, is the way to difcover its depths and fhallows. If we exercife and beftir ourselves, we may even here difcover fomething. 368. The eye by long ufe comes to fee even in the darkest cavern: and there is no fubject so obscure, buṛ we may difcern fome glympfe of truth by long poring on it. Truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few. Certainly where it is the chief paffion, it doth not give way to vulgar cares and views; nor is it contented with a little ardour in the early time of life, active perhaps to purfue, but not fo fit to weigh and revife. He that would make a real progrefs in knowledge, muft dedicate his age as well as youth, the later growth as well as first fruits, at the altar of truth. Cujufvis eft errare, nullius nifi infipientis in errore perfeverare. CIC. (b) 335, 337. FINI S. medicate their wines with,111 46 4-7 86-109 59 Whence this English malady Soap, opium, and mercury, tho 88, 89 proceeds, 66. 104 they bid fair for universal me- A 121 8. 123 Theory of acids, falts, and alcalies, Sect. 129-136. 227 Air the common feminary of all vivifying principles, 137Air, of what it confifts, 147 144 The doctrine of all things un- ware, 282 Nature better explained by attraction than by Descartes's principles of fize and figure, 243, 4 Attraction in fome degree dif covered by Galilæi, 245 Phænomena are but appearances in the foul, not to be accounted for upon mechanical principles, 251, 2. 310 The ancients not ignorant of many things in phyfics and metaphyfics, which we think the discovery of modern times, 265-69 151. 195-7 Pure æther, or invifible fire, the fpirit of the universe, which operates in every thing, 152 -62 The world how understood to be an animal, 152-156. 166. 175. 262. 273.-9 Opinion of the ancients concerning it, 166-75. 229 And of the Chinese conformable to them, 180-82 What meant by the forms of the Peripatetics, 167.310 Fire worshipped among various nations, 183-5 Opinion of the best modern che. Of abfolute space, and fate, mifts concerning it, 189-90 Ultimately the only menftruum Of the anima mundi of Plato, in nature, 191 Adds to the weight of bodies, and even gold made by the introduction of it into quickfilver, 169. 192-6 Pure elementary fire how inherent in bodies without being fubject to the fenfes, 198-201 Opinion of Hippocrates and Dr. Willis of a vital flame, 204, 5 The theory of Ficinus and others concerning light, 206-13 Sir Ifaac Newton's hypothefis of a fubtle æther examined, 221. 228. 237.246. Pure æther the fame with his acid, 130. 202. 227 No accounting for natural pha- ' nomena, either by attraction and repulfion, or by elaftic ther, without the prefence of an incorporeal agent, 231 人 38. 246 249. 294-97 Had fome advantages beyond us, 298 270-3 ·276-84.322 What meant by the Egyptian Ifis and Osiris, 268. 299 Plato's and Aristotle's threefold diftinction of objects, 306-7 Their opinion of ideas being innate, or not, 308, 9 Neither of them believed the abfolute exiftence of corporeal things, 311, 12. 316—18 The ftudy of the philofophy of Socrates and Pythagoras would have fecured the minds of men from that felfishness which the mechanic philofophy has introduced, 331, 32 The study of Plato recommended, 332.338 Who agrees with Scripture in many particulars, His opinion of the deity, and particularly of a trinity, agreeable to revelation, 341-365 339 |