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* que ordini, neque pulchrltudlni, ratlonive reriira efle confentaneum, 



* ut vitale aliquid feu immanenter (I fuppofe he means indejinenter) 



* agcns fit in exigua tantum parte materiae, cum ad majorem perfec- 



* tionem pertineat, ut fit in omni ; neque quicquam obftet, quo minus 



* nbiqnc fmt animae aut analoga faltem animabus ; etfi dominantes 



* anlmae, atque adeo intclligentes, quales funt humanae, ubique efle 



* non pofTint.' 



Though the Latin be barbarous, yet I think the pafTage is -in- 

 telligible ; and the meaning is, that, in all body, which is what 

 he calls the fecimda materia^ (in contradiftindtion to the Jirft matter, 

 -without form or quality,) there is an adive principle, which he 

 calls lijcy or fomething analogous to life, and which, he fays, hai 

 no intelligence, but conftantly moves body^ or gives it a tendency 

 to motion : And this is what, in the language of his philofo- 

 phy, he calls a monad. But it is nothing elfe than that principle of 

 motion which Ariftotle fays is in all phyfical bodies, which 1 have 

 called tnind^ and which Ariftotle fays is *c^<r-xie, ■^vxn, or* ^^^^ '^ mind. 



The next modern author I fhall quote is Do£tor Cudworth, a moft 

 ingenious and learned writer, of whom I have made more ufe in 

 compofing this work, than of any other modern. He maintains, what 

 is the foundation of my whole fyllem, that body cannot move itfelf, 

 and that, therefore, when we fee body in motion, we are fure that the 

 motion muft have proceeded, at leaft originally, from fome incorporeal 

 caufe *. And from his w^ords, which 1 have quoted below, it is evi- 

 dent that he thought this a fundamental dodriae of Iheiim. 



The 



* 



Cudworth's Intellcflual Syftem, p. 888. His words are, * Since no body can 

 * polhbJy move iucif, that which firft moved matter muft of netellity be incorporeal ; 



* nor 



