The metaphysical part of man, which derives its origin from the Creator’s impression, or the essence of the thinking soul, altho’ it has no more consciousness or knowledge of its own essence, than those of other beings; nor perhaps the means of its present modes of conception, without the use of those bodily organs, to which the all-wise Creator was pleased to confine it for a time, and the presence of internal objects, any more than the organs of sensation feel the touch without the contact of external objects, is still in the fool, as well as philosopher, when furnished with proper organs, equally capable of that innate potency of expressing its own qualities and actions, as is evident from our universal acknowledgement of a creator, and the different powers of those fools who are capable of lucid intervals. And however different our reasonings may be concerning the attributes of the infinite Creator, from the variousness of objects and different degrees of volition, there can be nothing more absurd than to affirm that the human soul cannot be impressed with the image of its Creator, because at times it expresses or affects no consciousness of it; consciousness being rather an energic affirmation or quality of the soul, than its essence, as an involuntary animal or vegetable motion is an act, rather than the cause of motion. Such perceptions however as it does express of spiritual beings, have privative, energic, or moral names; which are formed by the symmetry, and just measures and proportions of parts and modes of motion; from whence moral notions also derive their origin, as shall be shewn in the course of the following work, as shall also as to our mistaking infinite duration for time. Tho’ metaphysics aid the moral plan, “The proper study of mankind is man;” His language part we now presume to scan, A mighty maze to be without a plan; ‘A _wild_ where weeds promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit;’ The tree of life, once, branches, stem, and root, Of knowledge too, since _vices_ on it shoot. The garden cleared of the tares and weeds, Gives willing force, and cogitation speeds. ‘Then, as life can little more supply, Than just to look about us, and to die; Expatiate free o’er all this scene of man, A mighty maze! yet not without a plan.’ Plain truth, not _person_, is my utmost hope, I tell you truly in the sense of Pope. _Wild_ signifies a wood, or the place of the higher growth, and is an emblematical expression for the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the Υλη, matter or sound of human speech, as ειδος seems to be of its ideal property.