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defcrves the name of mind: Such, I know, is the common ufe of the 

 word in EngUfli, though I have (hewn above*, that, as the Greek phi- 

 lofophcrs had more extenfive views of things than we, fo their philo- 

 fophical laiiguage Vv'as more comprehenfive ; and therefore they had a 

 word {4.vxn) which exprefled, not only the human mind, but hkewife 

 the internal principle of the brute animal and the vegetable, perceiving, 

 betwixt thefe, a relation and conformity, which, it appears, our modern 

 philofophers do not perceive, or, at leail:, do not attend to. But, without 

 dif^uting about theufe of words, let me afkthe philofophers of this age, 

 Whether there be not fomcthing within the brute, as well as within the 

 man, which moves the one as well as the other? All the philofophers 

 of Britain, at lead, will admit that there is ; and, if fo, I think it not 

 improper to call by the fame name the internal principle, which 

 produces the fame effect in both, however different they may be in 

 other refpects ; for it is by what they have in common, that -we chfs 

 things under the {ame genus, and call them by the i'a.mc generic name, 

 however different they may be in /pedes. Thus, we call by the fame 

 name of animal, creatures very different from one another, becaufe they 

 have in common what belongs to the general idea of animal. A<^ain 

 there are motions in the vegetable, which cannot be accounted for from 

 any external impulfe, luch, particularly, as the motion of the juices 

 upwards. Thefe motions, therefore, inufl: likewife be produced by 

 forne internal principle, by which the vegetable is nourilhed, grows, 

 and propagates its kind, as well as the animal. And this principle of 

 movement, although the movement be not (o various as that of the a- 

 nimal, I call by the fame generic name of ?nind. Again, thofe move- 

 ments of the bodies called inanmiate, by which fome moue ojie v/ay, 

 fome another, f)me in a ftraight line, fome in a circular; as they have 

 not hitherto been accounted for by any material impulfe from with- 

 out, and, I firirly believe, never can, 1 mult likewife afcrihe to fome 

 internal princi; Ic, which, having that genend charaderiftic of miml, of 

 producing motion^ 1 call by the iame general name oJt mind. 



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