i8 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book I. 



CHAP. IV. 



O/NTmd, and its ^alities. — Mind only cifiive. — ^oAy pajive. — The 

 Nature of ACt'ioa and Paffion. — Of the Vis Inertiae of Body. — 0/" 

 Adion atid Readion. — Body does not properly move. — The Cohe- 

 fion of Body produced by Mind. — Mind tiot extended, figured, or 

 ^ivifible, according to Dr Clarke's Notion. — Mind, ne'uerthelefs, 

 exifls in Space, but not as Body does. — Infinite Space no Attribute 

 of the Deity. 



IB E G I N with a quality of Mind which will make the diflFerence 

 betwixt it and Body ftill more evident, and, at the fame time, 

 will fhow the neceflary connexion and relation betwixt them. It 

 is this, that Mind a^s, whereas Body is a6led upon^ or, in one 

 word, is paffive. And this diftindtion goes through the whole of 

 Nature ; for every thing in Nature is in a perpetual round of gene- 

 ration and corruption, which cannot be without fomething a6iing^ 

 and fomethingT/^^nng-. It is therefore true, what is faid in the 

 moft antient book of philofophy extant, * Ocellus Lucanus *,' that 

 the Univerfe is compofed of what a^s dLiifS.fuffers. 



And here it is to be obferved, that, by A^lion^ I mean that energy 

 of the agent ^ by which fome change is produced in the other thing, 

 which I call the patient ; fo that, of neceffity, there muft be two 

 things, viz. an Agent and a Patient ; and, wherever there is an A- 

 gent, there muft of neceffity be a Patient ; and "vice 'verfa "j". 



According 



• See ihepaflage from this Author quoted and explained in a note upon p. 31.0/ 

 Vol. 1. 



f See this more fully explained in the Firft Vol. p. 29. and following. 



