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calls it, that went to a degree of madnefs, like the Hydrophobia of a 

 dog, mufl be driven to the neceflity of employing Mind, at leaft for 

 explaining this phaenomenon : And it certainly would be fo, if he 

 did not believe, not only that Matter could move itfelf, but in the 

 moft regular and orderly manner ; which, as I have obferved, is a 

 fundamental principle of all Atheifm. 



And this leads me to fpeak of the laft Motive Power I mention- 

 ed, Mind, by which, I hold, all Motions on Earth are produced, that 

 cannot be accounted for by the adlion of Body upon Body. Of 

 this kind, undoubtedly, are the ProgrefHve Motions of Animals, alfo 

 their inward Motions, by which their animal Oeconomy is carried 

 on ; for, though many of thefe Motions, as I have faid, may be im- 

 mediately produced by Trufion, yet, as the Bodies, which move o- 

 ther Bodies in that way, cannot move them unlefs they be firfl; mo- 

 ved themfelves, I hold that the Mover of them is Mind, by which 

 all the operations of Growth and Nutrition are performed, if not 

 immediately, at leaft mediately. As to the Magnetical, Eledri- 

 cal, and Chymical Motions, I hold them to be immediately from 

 Mind. 



The manner of Mind operating in Moving Bodies, I have alreadv 

 fully explained, and (hall not here repeat ; I fhall only fay, that it 

 is impoflible that any man, who has an Idea of what Mind, or an 

 immaterial Subftance, is, can imagine that it moves Body by Pul- 

 fion, or Trufion, or otherwife than by operating upon every par- 

 ticle of it, that is, in other words, animating it. 



1 have only one thing further to obferve concerning the Mo- 

 tions by Mind, that there is fuch a wonderful Harmony, Confent, 

 and Sympathy, in all the feveral parts of Nature, that, in every cafe 

 where Bodies are moved to or frojn one another, the Motion is mu- 



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