English poem
Of
by Aaron Hill
GENIUS.
The Cartesian Categories are contain'd in these two Verses,
Mens, mensura, quies, motus, positura, Figura, Sunt, cum materia, cunctarum Exordia rerum.
The Spiritual Nature, Mens, is at the head of All. It ought to be look'd on here, as a Transcendent Nature, quæ vagatur per omnes Categorias.
Bayle's Diction. on the Heathen Doctrine of many Genij. See CAINITES.
LONDON:
Printed for EM. MATTHEWS at the Bible in Pater-Noster-Row; J. ROBERTS, in Warwick-Lane; J. HARRISON, under the Royal Exchange; and A. DODD, without Temple-Bar. MDCCXIX.