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26 APPENDIX. Chap. n. 



In \\\tjirjl place, I think, it muft be admitted, that my opinion is 

 more agreeable to the general analogy of nature ; for, if it be ad- 

 mitted, as thefe gentlemen do admit, that our Bodies, and the Bo- 

 dies of other animals, are moved by Minds of their own — alfo that 

 the Vegetable is moved in the fame manner, there v^'ould be fome- 

 -thing incongruous and inconfequent in Nature, if other Bodies 

 were not alfo moved by Minds of their own, but which I acknow- 

 ledge to be a very inferior Mind even to that of the vegetable, and 

 as different from it as the vegetable life is from the animal. 



ido^ If it be admitted, as I think it muft, that the Deity does 

 not do every thing immediately by himfelf, but employs inferior 

 agents and minifters under him, in what is it more likely that he 

 lliould employ fuch agents, than in that loweft office of Mind, the 

 fimple movement of Bodies ? 



But, 3//(?, I think I have iLown that Mind cannot move Body as Body 

 moves Body, that is, by Pulfion or Trufion, or in any otherway by con- 

 ta6i:, or application of furface to furface, but by a<^ing upon every par- 

 ticle of it, that is, by animating it *. Now^, to fuppofe the Supreme God 

 to be embodied, and to be nothing elfe but an Anima Mund'i^ is, as 

 I think I have fhown f , downright Spinozifm, and as repugnant to 

 the dodrine of genuine theifm, as it is to the philofophy of the an- 

 tients ; and it is going but one ftep farther to maintain, as Dr 

 Prieftley does, that God is the only Mind in the univcrfc, and that 

 w^e ourfelves have no fouls, nor Minds of any other kind, but are 

 mere machines. 



And, Icijlly If it be true, as I think it certainly is, what Ariftotle 

 has faid, that our Minds are in fome fenfe moved with our Bodies |, 

 it follows, as the necefTary confequence of this opinion, that the 

 Deity muft be moved along with the Bodies w^hich he moves j fo that 



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