Theory of acids, falts, and alcalies, Sect. 129-136.227 Air the common feminary of all vivifying principles, 137 144 Air, of what it confifts, 147151. 1957 Pure æther, or invifible fire, the fpirit of the univerfe, 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 180-82 to them, What meant by the forms of the Peripatetics, 167.310 Fire worshipped among various nations, 183 -5 Opinion of the best modern che. mifts concerning it, 189-90 Ultimately the only menftruum Nature better explained by attraction than by Defcartes'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 difcovery of modern times, 265-69 Had fome advantages beyond 298 us, - Of abfolute space, and fate, 270- 3 Of the anima mundi of Plato, 276. 84.322 What meant by the Egyptian Ifis and Ofiris, 268.299 Plato's and Ariftotle'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 selfishness which the mechanic philofophy has introduced, 331, 32 The ftudy of Plato recommended, 3321338 Who agrees with Scripture in many particulars, 339 His opinion of the Deity, and particularly of a Trinity,agreeable to revelation, 341-365 |