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fed that it fliould be fo, who has read what I have written on the 

 fubjedl of the Motions here on earth, but, on the contrary, would 

 be very much furprifed were it otherwife, efpecially if he beUeve 

 that there is a fyftem in Nature, — that Mind is the governing Power 

 in that Syftem, — and that things below have a refemblance to things 

 above. That the Motion of animals on Earth is by mind, no body 

 can doubt, who believes that Mind exifts any where. And, for the 

 fame reafon that he beUeves the Animal Motion to proceed from 

 Mind, he muft believe the Motion of the Vegetable to be from 

 the fame caufe, and that the Vegetable truly is what it has been al- 

 ways called by the philofophers of antiquity, an Animated Suh- 

 fuince. And, as to unorganized Bodies, that moft remarkable Mo- 

 tion here on Earth, I mean the Tides in the Sea, is, I think, of it- 

 felf, fufficient to convince any reafonable Man, that even unorgani- 

 zed or Brute Matter is moved by Mind, As to this Motion, I have 

 obferved *, that there is a confent or fympathy betwixt it and the Mo- 

 tion of the Moon, from which fome readers may poffibly infer, that 

 the one is produced by the other. If it were fo, it would not, I think, 

 be eafy to determine which produced which, and whether the Moon 

 was the caufe of the Motion of the Sea, or the Sea the caufe of the 

 Motion of the Moon ; but my meaning is, that neither is the caufe 

 of the Motion of the other, but that there is a mutual confent or 

 agreement betwixt their Motions, proceeding immediately from a 

 caufe inherent in each of them, but ultimately from a caufe much 

 fuperior to either of them. I cannot explain this better, than by the 

 example of a batallion of foldiers performing their exercifc. There 

 is a confent, or fympathy, betwixt the Motions of each individual in 

 the batallion ; but the Motion of not one of them is produced by 

 another : Nor is there one common principle of Motion for them all ; 

 but each is moved by a Motive Principle peculiar to himfelf ; and 

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