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may it not ftill be owing to fome untnowa 

 .mechanifhi, or the intervention of matter^ 

 mioving other matter ? Or, though it were 

 fhown to be impracticable by any mecha- 

 ni'fm whatever, as is not improbably 

 the cafe, why may we not attribute it to 

 the immediate agency of an inteHigent 

 a6live being? 



It may be urged further by way of ob- 

 je(5Hon, *' That a power of beginning vi- 

 " fible motion is no more conne6ted with 

 ** a power of thinking, than it is with any 

 ** other property of matter orfpirit." This 

 may poffibly be admitted in a certain fenfe^ 

 viz. that there may, for aught we know, 

 exift fome fpecies of thinking beings, de- 

 ftitute of the power of motion altogether. 

 Oiflers have very little of it. But, howe- 

 ver this be, we know, witb all the cer- 

 tainty 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 



