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i mi motion is no more connected with a power 
i «of thinking, than it is with any other pro- 
P «« perty of matter or {pirit.”” This may 
/ poflibly | be admitted i in acertain fenfe, «wz. 
that there may, for ought we know, exilt 
fome fpecies « of thinking beings, deftitute of 
‘the power of motion altogether. Oifters 
have very little of it. But however this be, we 
know, with all the certainty attainable in 
phyfics, that many thinking beings have 
fuch a power ; we fee them begin motion, a 
relative motion on the ground. When that 
motion is loft, they renew it and vary it again 
at every ftep. ‘They not only begin new 
motion, but deftroy old motion, at pleafure: 
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whereas no experience can ever tell us, that 
the beginning of the vifible motions of dead 
matter is original and underived. And there 
ss this wide difference (which hath been often 
_ remarked by authors on this fubject) betwixt 
animated and inanimated beings, with refpect 
to. motion, namely, that the thinking being 
can determine the direction’ and quantity of 
- its motion: which is a power incompatible 
with dead matter ; and confequently it will 
= fof itfelf remain for ever incapable of the leaft 
~ motion. Thus far therefore thre 1 is a con- 
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