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of great reputation upon the continent, and who, I really think, was 

 a man of great genius, having done as much in philofophy as I think 

 could well be done without the affiftance of the antients ; for he was 

 fo little of a fcholar, that he had not even a language in which to ex- 

 prefs his philofophy. He holds, as I do, that there is no body at reft, 

 but that all bodies are either actually in motion, or have a n'lfus to- 

 wards motion ; and that, therefore, his monads., which he makes the 

 elemental principles of things, have all in them a principle of adivity, 

 in which, he fays, there are, as it wQrCy perception a.nd appetite. 



The pafTage is to be found (A^a Erud, Lipfiae^ Anno 1690, pag. 

 435.J in a diflfertation, where he difputes with one Sturmius, a Ger- 

 man author ; one of whofe objections he anfwers in this way ; ' Re- 



* fponderi commode poteft ex recepta non minus quam vera philofo- 



* phia, materiam intelligi, vel fecundam, vel primam : Secundatn effe 



* quidem fubftantiam completam, fed non mere paffivam ; Primam 



* effe mere pafTivam, fed non effe completam fubftantiam, accidereque 



* adeo debere animam vel formam animae analogam, five unM-^c^x^ '^^' 



* 9rg«T»i>, id eft, nifum quendam feu vim agendi primitivam, quae ipfe 



* eft lex infita decreto divino imprefla. A qua fententia non puto 



* abhorrere virum celebrem et ingeniofum, qui nuper defendit corpus 

 ' conftare ex materia et fpiritu ; modo fumatur fpiritus non pro re in^ 

 ' telligente (ut alias folet,) fed pro anima vel forma animae analoga, 



* nee pro fimplici modificatione, fed pro conftitutivo, fubftantiali, per- 



* feverante, quod monadis nomine appellare foleo, in quo eft velut 

 ' perceptio et appetitus.* And a little after he fays, * Arbitror ne- 



^ g * que 



whereas, the things of art, #1/^'*' 'V"' *^" t*irK^^Mi «,«^t;T<,v, *,' ^i (rv^^f/Sfl^ct'^ «>t;T./« 



A,S*v«,5 \ y,,»<„s uyxi. \ fc^^rc, ,« t..t*» fy^» ^ccr» T»,r..rc» ; that is, ' The things of art 



« have no principle of movem- nt or change in themfelves, or ^vhich is natural to 



* them, except in fo far as they happen to be made of earth or flone, or any thine 



* mixed of thefe.' ' ^ 



