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ways niovcul ; but I mean that Mind has the poiver to move, and 

 Body the power or capacity of being moved ; for it is by poiver or 

 capuity, not by then- energies or operations, that things are properly 

 defined, thofe being the caufe of thcfe ; for, though we know no 

 caufe but by its cffeds, nor, confequently, any power but by its 

 operations, it is fit that every thing Ihould be defined by its caufe, 

 rather than by the cfFeas of that caufe ; for, in that way, we 

 better exprefs the internal nature and eflence of the thing. Thus, 

 we define man, by his powers and faculties, to be a rational animal, 

 capable of Intelleft and fcience, not by the energies or operations of 

 thefe faculties. 



Moreover, it is to be obferved, that Mind, though it be the author 

 of all motion, docs not always move Body immediately. This is 

 obvious to common obfervation ; for, even our own bodies are not 

 moved by our Mind, without the intervention of bones, mufcles, 

 a^d finews : Mind, therefore, moves Body, either mediately or imme- 

 diately ; and, when it moves mediately, it moves by the intervention, 

 either of other Bodies, or of other Minds. It is in this laft way that 

 our intelledual Mind does, in my opinion, move its own Body ; for 

 it is, as I conceive, by the miniftry of the animal life that our Intel- 

 led moves our Bodies, and, by their intervention, other bodies : And 

 it is in this way that, I think, we ought to conceive that the Deity 

 moves the whole univcrfe. 



That Mind, therefore, moves Body, mediately or immediately, 

 and that Body cannot move itfclf, is a fundamental propofition of 

 this philofophy and of the religion of Natine ; for, whoever be- 

 Jievcs that Body can move itfelf, is, whether he knows it or not, an 

 Atheift. And, as the power of moving is a common property of all 

 Minds, of the loweft, as well as of the higheft, as the power of beitig 

 ;;,v7-/]i: of all Bodice. I thought I could not give better definitions 



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