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The only other caufe I mentioned is the Final caufe, which, though 

 It be commonly ranked by the interpreters of Ariftotle as the laft 

 caufe *, is in reality the firft and the principal ; for it is for the fake 

 of the end that the efficient caufe ads, the form is given to the thing, 

 and matter provided to receive that form : It belongs to intelligent 

 beings, and to them only ; for it is only for an end propofed that 

 intelled ads. It is, however, very little confidered by our modern 

 philofophers, though, I think, it ought to be the chief ftudy of all 

 philofophy, and efpecially by thofe who cany their fpeculations up 

 to the firft Caufe, the Author of the univerfe ; for we cannot fuffi- 

 ciently admire his wifdom and goodnefs, unlefs we know the final 

 caufes of things. I will fay no more of it here, as I have treated 

 pretty fully of it, and of caufes in general, in chap. 4. of book 4. 

 of vol. 2. of this work J alfa in vol. i- book 1. chap. 4. p. 2^. 



In our little world, as well as In the great, there are all the four 

 caufes, as well as the four minds I have mentioned : So that in man 

 there are not only all the adive principles or minds which form the 

 ivniverfe, but all the caufes which conftitute it, and make it what it 

 is after it is formed. Of all thefe piinciples and caules, 1 have treat- 

 ed at confiderable length in my firft and fecond volumes ; where, 

 befides what 1 have faid of mind, I have explained the nature of Mo- 

 tion, Energy, Aclion, PalTion, Power, Habit, Faculty, Matter, and 

 Form t : And, in vol. i. book 4. 1 have treated of what I call the 

 adjundls of Nature, Time, Space, and P'ace. 



Of the third volum.e, v?hich I hav-e prefaced with the biftory of 

 antient philofophy, the fubjed is that moft wonderful compound — 

 man ; of whofe compofuion intelled is part. And, as there is no 



other 



♦ See Vol. II. p. 214. 

 t See Vol. I. p. 46, 



