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have no exijlence. — Anfwer, That this creative Faculty is a Por- 

 tion of the Divinity in us. — Difference betivixt the Worlds of our 

 Creation and the Worlds of God. 



THE qext thing, I am to treat of in this Appendix, concerns 

 Motion likewife, the grarid agent in all natural operations, 

 without the perfed; knowledge of which it is impoffible to undcr- 

 ftand the philofophy of Nature. I proceed, in this Chapter, upon 

 the fuppofition that all Motion is produced mediately or immediately 

 by Mind ; and I am now to inquire whether it be the Supreme 

 Mind that immediately moves unorganized j^odi^s, or whether they 

 be not moved by inferior Minds, incorporated with them, and in 

 :that way moving them, 



In the preceding part of this work I have maintained the doctrine 

 of antient philofophy,' That, tbough the Deity be the author of 

 all the Motions in the univerfe, having produced the Minds which 

 carry them on, yet he does not immediately move any Body : — That, 

 therefore,, there is a principle of Motion, according to Ariflotle, in 

 all phyfieai bodies, and which is what he caMs Nature : — That, by 

 luch a principle, all the Bodies in the univerfe are moved : — That, 

 with them, this principle, which he fays is a fpecles of Mind, and 

 which 1 call the Elemental MinJ, is alio moved ; but that the great 

 author of the univerfe, though the author of all the Motions in it, 

 is himfelf immoveable, and altogether feparated from matter. 



On the other hand, it is maintained by fome, for whofe opinion 

 I have the higheil rcfpe(£l:, that the Deity is the immediate author 

 of all the Motions of unorganized Bodies in this univerfe ; and that 

 he could not be faid to be omniprefent, unlefs he is prefcnt in every 

 particle of matter in fuch bodies. 



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