ehnp. IX. A N T I E N T M E TA P H Y S I C S. 447 



and not by any combined or compounded Motion, fuch as that of 

 Projection and Gravitation. And, lajlly\ that Sir Ifaac Newton's 

 Aftronomy, the Laws of the Planetary Motions, which he has dif- 

 covered, and the Theorems founded upon thofc Laws, will all ftand 

 good, upon my hypothefis of the Planets being moved by Mind ia 

 the moll fimple and direct manner. 



The foundation of my whole argument, and, indeed, I think , 

 of Theology and the true Philofophy of Nature, is this Propofi- 

 tion, — That there is a diftindion betwixt Mind and Body, that Mind 

 is the Moving Power in this Univerle, and that Body is only movedy 

 and that, therefore. Body cannot move itfelf ; the confequence of 

 which is, that Body neither can begin nor continue Motion; for,, 

 betwixt thefe two, I think I have fliown, both from the reafon of 

 the thing, and from fa£l and experience, that there is no difference. 

 In fhort, my philofophy is that moft antient philofophy, more an- 

 tient than the Schools either of Plato or Ariftotle, which main- - 

 tains that there are two things in this univerfe, comprehending 

 every thing in it, one of which ads, and the other fuffers, or, in 

 other words. Mind and Body ; the former of which is the adive 

 Power in Nature, while the latter is merely paffive, and only the 

 fubjedl upon which the other ads *. 



On the other hand, the Materiallft, if he truly undcrftands his own 



caufe, muft maintain that there is no fuch diftindion in Nature ; that 



Body is both adive and paflive, and therefore can both move itfelf, 



and be moved by itfelf. This, as I have more than once faid, is the 



only foundation upon which Materialifm can ftand ; for it is im- 



poffible that Pulfion, Trufion, or any other adion that we can 



conceive of Body upon Body, can ac:ount for either the beginning. 



or the continuation of the feveral Motions in Nature. . 



Materialifm . 

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