116 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
fied according to different circumftances, can 
proceed from nothing but an _ intelligent 
caufe, cither mediately or immediately exert- 
ed upon bodies. 
WHEN motion is obferved to begin in any 
body, it muft be afcribed to one or other of 
thefe four caufes ; 1. Some external animated 
being; 2. An external inanimated being; 3. 
A felf-moving animated faculty; and 4. A 
felf-moving inanimated faculty. Of the for- 
mer three, there are a variety of manifeft 
examples. Of the laft there can be no certain 
example at all; and confequently we fhould 
make a bad choice, in preferring it to the o- 
thers: fuch a fuppofition, namely the produ- 
€tion of motion from an internal inanimate 
principle, is intirely without foundation; and 
feems to be much the fame thing as to allow, 
that motion may begin without any caufe at 
all. 
TuHaT fomething may begin to exift, or 
ftart into being without a caufe, hath indeed 
been advanced in a very ingenious and pro- 
found 
