MET 77 1\IeH\.uwrphosis, s. from p.e-ra, m/fta, again, anu p.oP'P1], ':Il'6rplli, a form. The change of n person or thing into another form. l\Iost of the ancient Inetamor- . }lhoscs include some allegorical lucaning, relating either to ph)'sics or moralil),. Some authors arc of opinion, that a great part of the ancient philosoph), is couched under them. 1\1eta-phor, s. from fl.ETa, 1Il~ta, heyond, and CPEp"', pMro, I carry. The application of a word to a usc to which in its original import it cannot be put, as "he bridles his anger;" "the golden harvest." l\Iela-ph)'sics, s. from fl.ETa, 1Il~la, be)'ond, and cpu'1Ir, ~_ plmsis, nature. The science which considers beings as abstracted from all matter, particularl)' beings llurely spiritual, as God, angels, the human soul; or it may he defined, the science of the principles and causes of all things existing. HOllce it is that mind or intelligence, and especiaIIy the Supreme Intelli. gence, which is the cuuse of the universe, and of every thing which it contains, is the principal subject of this science. The word originatec] with Aristotle, who has termed a treatise which chiefly relates to the intellectual world, and which is l;laced after his physics (Sec l'nyslCs), META TA rnus,s. So that it may mean either something "beyond ph)'sics," "or merely an appendix to physics," or natural history. l\Ict-cm-ps)'chosis, s. from p.c"Ta, meta, again, r:p., em, in, aml t[JuX7l, pSl/cltii, the soul. (Sec note, p. 17.) Transmigration, or the supposed passage of the soul from one bod)' to another. Pythagoras ancl his followers believed that, uftcr death, Im~n's souls passed into other hodies, of this -or that kind, according to the manuel' of life the)' had led. If the)' had been Yicious, they were imprisoned in the bodies of miserable beasts, there to do penance for several ages, at the expiration whereof, they retnrned afresh to animnte lnen. llut if the~' lived virtuously, S0111(' hap- JI ~\
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