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wife ? If, this notwithftanding, any one flioiild think that there 

 cannot be a moving power witliout appetite and defire, I lay that 

 there is in Bodies unorganized fomething, at Icaft, very like to ap- 

 petite ; for, in what the chymifts call elective attra^ions, we ob- 

 ferve certain Bodies, not only fhowing the greateft inclination to 

 other Bodies, and running, as it were, into their embraces, but, af- 

 ter they have incorporated with them, forfaking them, and, in pre- 

 ference to them, uniting themfelves with others *. 



This motive principle, whether fimply moving, or having other 

 powers, I denote by the general name of Mind ; becaufe I think I 

 have proved, that It is not Matter : And, if It be not Matter, it muft 

 be Mind ; as I hold there is nothing in the univerfe but Matter and 

 Mind. But, if any man is dlfpofed to call it by another name, 

 fuch as Life^ Vitality, or a Principle of Motion^ I have no objedions, 

 provided he allow that it is not a Material Principle : For I have 

 always held It to be frivolous and inept, to dlfpute about tx'o/v/j-, 

 when people are agreed about things. At the fame time, I think, 

 it Is better to give fuch names to thefe things as may ferve to keep 

 in view the governing power in Nature, and never let us forget that 

 Mind is the author of all Motion. 



I only further add concerning this fpecies of Mind, that, as it is 

 predominant in the fyftem of the Material world, and makes a part 

 of all Vegetables and Animals, it is neceflary that it fliould abound 

 more than any other ; and, accordingly, it animates every particle 

 of Matter, Mineral, Vegetable, or Animal. Nor is it any objedtion 

 to my fyftem, that I thus make the number of Minds infinite: For, 

 though Matter be, in theory, infinitely divifible, yet, as I have fhown 



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• See what I have further faid concerning Appetite, both in vegetables, and in 

 unorganized Bodies, Vol. i, p. 237. and 238. 



