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in my opinion, by far the greater part of mankind are deftined, by 

 God and Nature, to be governed in that way *. 



It will no doubt be objeded, that a determination of the Mind 

 of the Brute to aCt fo varioufly upon different occafions, can 

 hardly be conceived without judgment or intelligence. But, let 

 us confider how Nature a£ts in other organized Bodies, fuch as 

 ihe vegetable. We fee that a vegetable, reared in the corner of a 

 dark cellar, will bend itfelf towards the light which comes in at the 

 window ; and, if it be made to grow in a flower pot with its head 

 dovsrnwards, it will turn itfelf up into the natural pofition of a 

 plant. Can it be maintained that the plant, in either cafe, does 

 what it does from any judgment or opinion that it is beft, and not 

 from a neceffary determination of its nature ? 



But, further, to take the cafe of bodies unorganized, or inanimate, 

 as they are commonly called ?-— How fhall we account for the pheno- 

 mena which chymiftry exhibits to us ? When one body unites with 

 another, and then, upon a third being prefented to it, quits the firft 

 and unites itfelf with it, iliall we fuppofe that this preference of the 

 one to the other proceeds from any prediledion or opinion that it is 

 better to cleave to the one than to the other ? or fhall we not rather 

 fay that it proceeds from an original determination of the elemental 

 mind, which moves thefe fubftances fo and fo upon certain occa« 

 fions ? 



It may be faid that phenomena fo extraordinary- can only be ac- 

 counted for by the immediate interpofition of Deity. But this is re- 

 curring to a notion, which I hope I have fufficicntly refuted, that 

 God is the immediate author of Motion : And, if this cannot be it 

 only remains that God has created the Minds of fuch fubftances 

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