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united to ^'^^j do not as often proceed from the body as from the 

 mind. Some of them, we are fure, do fo ; and, indeed, mind and body 

 are fo united, that the one muft neceflarily affect the other ; fome- 

 times the afFedion proceeding from the mindy and producing fympa- 

 thetic movements in the body^ as in the cafe of fear or anger, or fuch 

 like pafTions ; and fometimes proceeding from the bodyt and produ- 

 cing fympathetic emotions in the mind, as in the cafe of pain. 



It is evident, therefore, that Plat6*s definition is imperfect, and 

 will not apply to what I call mind 'y jirft^ in refpedt that it does 

 not comprehend the Supreme Mind^ which may be called the ISiind of 

 Isl^inds ; 3iVi(\ificondlyy becaufe it docs not apply to all the movements 

 and changes of inferior minds, many of which do not proceed from 

 the mind itfelf, but from the borly with which it is united. It would 

 therefore have been better, as I obferved in the prececding chapter, if 

 Plato had not applied motion at all to the w/W, which he certainly 

 did not believe to be corporeal ; and, inflead of faying that it was /hlf-- 

 movedi had faid it ^2i^Jelf-a5live ; and l.have no doubt but that was 

 his meaning. 



From this examination of the definitions given oimind by Plato and 

 Ariftotle, it appears, 1 think, ftill more evident, that the definition I 

 have given is the true one, being liable to none of thofe objedions, to 

 which the definitions, both of the mafter and fcholar, are liable. And 

 it appears, from the account which Ariftotle has given us of the opi- 

 nions of the philofophers before his time concerning it *, that they al! 

 agreed in making ^^ poorer of moving one, at leafij of the principal 

 attributes of 7?and : And the lateft of them, Anaxagoras, did, as he 

 informs us, define mind by that poiver only. But, fays he, they ima- 

 gined that it not only ??wvedyhut ivas moi'ed', becaufe they laid, that 

 -every thing here below, that moved other things, was alfo 7?2ove£l 



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