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And, indeed, thofe who-have not learned from antient philofophy, to 

 form a notion fufficiently comprehenfive of body and mind, and 

 who imagine that nothing is mind but what thinks, reafons, and re- 

 fleds, will have no conception of mind in fuch bodies. But 1 would 

 afk thefe gentlemen, firft, Whether they do not believe that it is mind 

 that moves their own bodies ? To this, I fuppofe they will anfwer^ 

 That they do. Next, I afk them, What it is that moves the bodies 

 of other animals ? To this, I take it for granted, that the anfvver like- 

 wife will be. That this motive principle is alfo mind. Or, if they re- 

 fufe to dignify it with the name of 77iind^ they will allow, at leaft, ihat 

 it is fomething diftind: from their bodies, as much as the motive prin- 

 ciple in us is diftind from our bodies. But this mind of the brute, 

 or by whatever other name they chufe to call it, for I will quarrel 

 with no man about words, they will, no doubt, allow to be different 

 from our minds. Here, therefore, it is admitted, that there are two 

 minds, both moving bodies, yet different from one another, and the 

 one much more excellent than the other. But, how can we flop here, 

 and not admit that the vegetable is likewife moved by mind^ or fome 

 principle diftind from the body, by what name foever it be called ? 

 For ihe vegetable is an organized body, as well as the animal, and is 

 nouriihed, grows, and propagates its kind, like the animal. It is true,, 

 indeed, it has not ienfation, as the animal has ; and it is confined to 

 one fpot of earth ; whereas the animal is an emancipated fon of the 

 earth, as he is called by fome author that I have read. It has not, 

 therefore, the lame variety of movements as the animal j but, fuch as 

 they are, it is impoffible to account for them from material or mecha- 

 nical caufes. And there is one of them that I have not yet mentioned, 

 but vvhich 1 think well worth obferving : It is a movement of a plant 

 grov^'ing in a dark corner of a cellar, by which it indines icfdf towards 

 the iigiit that comes in at the window. This is a movcmeut which. 

 (hows a kind of inclination or appetite very much rclembling tliat of 

 the ienlitive mind : So that, if we will make machines of plants,, 



we 



