74 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book II. 



principle, or inifid^ as I call it, is in all bodies ; and the only diftinc'^ion 

 I make is, thai- in lome bodies, luch as the animal and vegetable, it o- 

 perates by organs, in others, it operates immediately, and without the 

 intervention or any organs, at lealt, luch as we can difcover *\ 



A like impropriety of fpeech we life, when we fay, that 7mnd moves 

 it/elf, which neceffarily luppofes that it is moved; whereas, in the fenfe 

 of bod?/)/ jnotiouy of which only I mufl be underftood to fpeak, it is im- 

 poflible, as 1 already obferved, that it can be moved 'f. We ought, 

 therefore, to fay, if we would fpeak properly and philofophically, that 

 mi7id a^ls, and is, by itfclf, excited to action. And, inftead of faying, 

 that it is moved, we fhould fay that lifufers, though even that be not 

 from its own nature, but from its conjundion with body if. 



CHAP. 



is moved J is evident; for he concludes the chapter in thefe words, K^avTa «^« t«c x<K«t<jt«£v« vVa 

 TiiofKivoiTo. And, in the beginning of the next chaper, he makts the fame diltintlion 

 that I do betwixt th^ moving prwciple operating immediately by itfelf, or by the in- 

 tervention of another thing, ■n y«g ov d<' uuto to xivat/v, uXXa 5"/ \rig^c7 Kivei TO xivowy n ot 

 tcvro. 



* See the preceeding note 



t Ariftotle, in his firft book, De Anima, employs a chapter (chap. 5.) to prove 

 that the mind cannot he moved, and confequently that it cannot be faid to move itfclf, 

 "which he concludes with thefe words on (Atv cw ov^ Itov n mvn^^Sat rr,* yw;^*!* <p«v£gev sx 



X faee this proved by Ariftotle, in the chapter above quoted. 



