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CHAP., xvir. 



Of theDifference of the Jeveral Kinds o/'Minds — The firft Kind that ivh'ich 

 moves unorganized Bodies — Several Motions produced by it. — Gravi- 

 tation — Attraciion-^Repulfion — Circular Motion — 77?^ Principle of 

 thefe Motion^ internal — Compari/ons of thefe Principles of Motion zvith 

 Intelle^s and nvith one another — Ihey all atl ivithout Confcioiifnefs^ 

 IntrJUgencei End propofed^ Deliberation^ or Intention — Definition of 

 N iture — Difference betivixt the Vegetable and the Principle of Mo- 

 tion in unorganized Bodies — Difference betivixt the Vegetable and 

 Animal — Definition oj the Animal Nature, and of Inftin(St — Reafon 

 nvhy Inl'tindt never errs — Cudvuorth^s Plaftic Nature the fame vuith 

 Arifiotle*s Nature — Nature fuppojes a God — Only from the Study of 

 the Human Mind that vue 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 Antients, 



HA V I N G faid fo much of mind in general, and the human 

 mind in particular, 1 will, in this chapter, explain more parti- 

 cularly the difference that I apprehend there is betwixt the feveral 

 minds 1 have mentioned, beginning with the lowefl kind, but which 

 is abfolutely neceflary for carrying on the bufmefs of nature, and 

 even for the exiftence of a material world. 



Andj frjl, this fo powerful principle is that which unites and keeps 

 together all the feveral bodies ; in fo much that, without it, there- 

 would be no fuch thing as body in the univerfe. It is thcrcff^re the 

 principle of union in body j and, as it is only mind that unites, oi is 



adive 



