8 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book I. 



Accident, or Accident Subftance, would be to confound all Nature, 

 and take away a diftindion, which is the foundation of all Logic 

 and all Philofophy. 



As to the difficulty of conceiving how fo many Minds can be 

 joined in one compofuion, it is much more difficult to conceive how 

 one Mind can be united with one Body ; for no two Minds are of 

 natures fo heterogeneous as Mind and Body. 



There are others who make this matter ftill more fnnple, by main- 

 taining that there is but one Mind in the Univerfe, the author, im- 

 mediately and diredly, of all the Motion in the Univerfe. The 

 confequence of which is, that there is an end of the diilindion, 

 which I, following the antient philofophers, have made betwixt the 

 Intelleaual, the Senfitive, and the Vegetable Life. For, not only 

 Vegetables, but all Animals, and, among others, Man, are, accord- 

 ing to this dodrlne, mere Machines, having no Mind of their own, 

 but moved diredly and immediately by the Supreme Mind. This is 

 the Philofophy of Dr Prieftley. Before him, Mr Baxter had main- 

 tained, that inanimate Bodies were fo moved ; but he allowed that 

 Men and I believe, other Animals, had Minds of their own. But, 

 as I have obferved elfewhere *, Dr Prieftley argues more confequen- 

 tially, when he fays, that, if we admit Man to be moved by a Mind 

 of his own, we muft admit other Bodies likewife to be moved by 

 their own Minds, becaufe they are moved in the fame way, that 

 is internally, as Mind moves Body, and not from without, as Bo- 

 dy moves Body. 



I have argued a good deal againft Dr Prieftley in the Second Vo- 

 lume of this work, and I ftiall only add here, that the Dodor, whe- 

 ther he knows it or not, is a Spinofift : For Spinofa was no Atheift, 

 any more than, I believe, the Dodlor is ; for he has aflerted, in the 

 cleareft terms, that there is a Being eternal, infinite, all- wife, and 



all- 

 * Vol. II. p. 58. 



