CONTENTS. 



IX 



Impulfe of a fubtile Fluid — ^The Averfion of our prefent Philofophers to Mzrzi— In 

 what Senfe Nature can be faid to produce the Motion of Bodies — Mind effential to 

 Nature — Motion in the Vegetable not to be accounted for by Mechanic Caufes — ftill 

 lefs the Motion of the Animal — Wonderful Power exerted by the Moving Principle 

 in the Animal — Senfation cannot be produced by a Material Caufe—Reafoning and 

 Confcioufnefs izx Uh Page i8i 



CHAP. xvr. 



Concerning the feparate Exiftence of Minds — Ariftotle's Dodrine upon this Subject — 

 The Moving Principle in Bodies unorganized, and in Vegetables, cannot exift fepa- 

 rately — More Doubt as to the Animal Mind — Separate Exiftence of the Intellectual 

 Mind or Soul clearly proved from its Energ'its—'Immortality of the Soul alfo evident 

 from its Nature p. 196 



CHAP. XVII. 



Of the Difference of the feveral Kinds of 3Iinds — The firft Kind that which moves un- 

 organized Bodies — Several Motions produced by it — Gravitation— Attraction — Re- 

 pulfion — Circular Motion— The Principle of thefc Motions internal— Comparifon 

 of thefe Principles of Motion with Intelle£t, and with one another — They all a6l 

 without Confcioufncfs, Intelligence, End propofed, Deliberation, or Intention — 

 Definition of Nature — Difference betwixt the Vegetable and the Principle of Motion 

 in unorganized Bodies— Difference betwixt the Vegetable and Animal — Definition 

 of the Animal Nature, and of Inftin£l — Reafon why Inftindt never errs — Cudworth's 

 Piaftic Nature the fame with Ariftotle's Nature — Nature fuppofes a God — Only from 

 the Study of the Human Mind that we can form any Conception of God — This Study 

 the Foundation of Theifm — The Philofophy of Mind only to be learned from the 

 Books of the Aniients p. 205 



C HA P. XVIII. 



The Docflrlne of all Bodies being moved by an internal A6bive Principle, not new- 

 maintained by Plato and Ariftotle — alfo by Leibnitz, and other Authors — Difference 

 cf Minds admitted by every Body — The Vegetable Mind has fomething like Appe- 

 tite and Inclination — The Mind in unorganized Bodies has fomething of the fame 

 Kind — The Belief, that there is no Principle in unorganized Body diftind from 



b Matter, 



