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rus's fyftem, in not accounting for the origin of Motion ; for he 

 fuppofes, tliat our machine was not only frainedby Almighty power, 

 but was likewife fet agoing by that Power : But he maintains, that 

 this Motion and MechaniAn does produce Intelligence, and 'not on- 

 ly Inteliigcnce, but Confcioufnefs ; for he cannot deny the fad, that 

 this machine of ours does not only go on in the ordinary opera- 

 tions of Intelligence, propofing ends, and devifmg means for accom- 

 plifliing thofe ends, but does alfo reJlcSl, and makes itfelf its own 

 objedl. And he likewife jnaintains, if I rightly underftand his fy- 

 ftem, that though tliere be Intelligence in the Univerfc, there is but 

 one Supreme Intelligence, but no Inferior Intelligences; fo that Men, 

 Animals, and Plants, are but mere Machines, and the names of Jn- 

 telleclnal^ animal^ and Vegetable life, are nothing but founds. What 

 we are to think of this fyftem, I leave the reader to judge. It 

 is better than the fyflem of Epicurus, in as much as it accounts for 

 the Origin of Motion ; but, in every other refpcdt, it is perfcd E- 

 picurifm ; and I think it is more abfurd than the fyftem of Strato 

 and Spinoza, in this refpedl, that it fuppofes mere Matter to produce 

 the works of Intelligence which we fee man produces, without Intelli- 

 gence in itfelf. But fuch fyftems we are to expedl from men who will 

 fpeculate on thcfe high fubjeds, without the affiftance of the Antients. 



I will conclude this chapter with obferving, that, if I have fuc- 

 ceeded in proving that Body cannot move itfelf, it muft be acknow- 

 ledged that my definition of Mind and Body difcriminate the two 

 as much as is poflible ; for, if Body cannot move, and if Mind can- 

 not be moved, it is evident they never can be confounded, accord- 

 ing to the definitions I have given of them, which are perfedly di- 

 ftindl, and, indeed, oppofite, as oppofite as affirmation and negation; 

 for Mind, I fiiy, j/ioues, Body does not move ; Mind is not moved^ 

 as fhall be demonftrated in the next chapter. Body is moved : And 

 from thefe definitions is demonftrated an eflential quality of Mind, 

 of which I am to treat in the next chapter, viz. its hmnateriality. 



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