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any I have hitherto mentioned : I fay that the Human Mind, even 

 our Animal Mind, is not confined either to Place or to Time. 



As to Place; the general opinion is, that our Mind is confined to 

 our Body,.which it inhabits while we exift in this life; and it is only 

 by death that it is releafed from this confinement. Even Ariftotle, 

 who believed that the Mind was not, by its nature, moveable, has 

 faid that it is moved by accident, or k«t« (ru/*j3»j3>ixoc, as he ex- 

 prefTes it *, when the Body is moved ; like a man in a boat, who is 

 not moved of himlelf, but is moved when the boat is moved '\: From 

 whence it would appear he thought that the Mind was contained in 

 or bounded by the Body. If that be true, it muft of neceflity occu- 

 py Space ; for every thing that is contained in another thing, occu- 

 pies Space in that other thing. Whereas I maintain, that the Mind 

 occupies no Space, and therefore is not moved, neither of itfelf, nor 

 by accident : And, in this refpeit, as well as in every other, it is ef- 

 . fentially difteient from Body, which muft occupy Space, that is, 

 muft have a Place, and only one Place at a time. 



As to Time, the general opinion is, that the common dlvifion of 

 Time into Paft, Prefent, and Future, applies to Mind as well as to 

 Body ; that the Mind has been in the Paft Time, ivill be in the Fu- 

 ture, and is in the Prefent Time ; but that it is impoffible that the 

 Mind, in the prefent inftant, Ihould exift in the Paft or the 

 Future : "Whereas I maintain that the Mind does adlually exift in that 

 way, however ftrange it may appear ; and in this, as in other re- 

 fpedls, it eflentially differs from Body, which cannot be conceived 

 to exift adually but in the prefent inftant. 



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• This is a common expreflion in Ariftotle's philofophy ; and it means that what 

 happens, is not from the nature of the thing to which it happens, but from fomething 

 adventitious to it. See what I have further faid on this fubjcft, Vol. i. p. 39. and 

 292. 



% See Vol. i. p. 21. and 791. 



