Thomas Taylor 
Metaphysics of Aristotle 
Translated From the Greek; With Copious Notes, in Which the Phythagoric and Platonic Dogmas Respecting Numbers and Ideas Unfolded Antient Sources

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This, too, is peculiar to Ariftotle, that he was never willing to depart from nature, but even contemplated things which tranfcend nature through a natural habit and knowledge; juft as, ‘ on the con trary, the divine Plato, after the manner of the Pythagoraeans, con templated whatever is natural fo far as it partakes of that which is divine and above nature: fo that the former confidered theology phyfically, and the latter phyfics theologically. He likewife never employs fables and enigmas, and never afcends into the marvellous and the myflic, but adopts obfcurity as a fubfiitute for every other veil, and involved mode Of writing; the reafon Of which we pro pofed to invel’tigate, as the fourth object Of inquiry.