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As the knowledge of Mind Is the higheft of all human know- 

 ledge, it is, I think, worth the while to obferve the progrefs of the 

 formation of the Idea of Mind, which, as I have faid, takes its rife 

 from Confcioufnefs. We begin, therefore, with our own Mind, which 

 we are confcious moves our Body ; and, from analogy, we conclude, 

 that Mind moves likewife the Bodies of other Men. By reafoning in 

 the fame way, we infer, that the Bodies of other animals are like- 

 wife moved by Mind : From thence we proceed to the Vegetable ; 

 and, as the movements of it cannot be accounted for from any ex- 

 ternal caufe, any more than the movements of Animals, we con- 

 clude that it alfo is moved by an internal Principle, that is. Mind : 

 And, by a like argument, we difcover that unorganized Bodies are 

 moved in the fame way. — And thus we difcover that Mind is the 

 active principle in the univerfe, which gives Life and Motion, Being 

 and Eflence, to every thing *. 



There is another and higher faculty of our Mind, of which we 

 are likewife confcious ; and that is, the faculty of perceiving by our 

 Senfes, and what arifes from that perception, fuch as Appetites and 

 Defires, Pleafure and Pain, and every thing elfe belonging to the 

 Senfitive Nature. And there is a much higher faculty ftill of which 

 we are confcious, I mean Intelligence, by which tve deliberate 

 propofe ends, and devife means for accompliftiing thofe ends, and 

 in (hort, adt with Council and Defign. And, being thus fure that 

 there is Intelligence in our little Bodies, by the fame analogical way 

 of reafoning, we conclude, from obferving the fame marks of Coun- 

 cil and defign in other Men, that they are dir€<fted by the fame In- 

 telledual Principle that governs us : And I think, with equal cer- 

 tainty, we conclude, that, as there are, in the univerfe, infinitely 

 greater marks of Council and Defign^ there is, therefore, prefiding 

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• See this analogy carried further, (p. 57.), to prove that each Body i« moved by 

 a particular Mind. 



