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net and the iron were moved towards one another hy mind; where- 

 as, according to the principles of Sir Ifaac's philofophy, I think, it is 

 evident, that he believed no body to be moved in that way : So that 

 it is aethers and fubtile fluids, which, according to his philcfophy, 

 move magnetic, eledri^al, and chemical bodies; and move them 

 every way, not only towards one another, but from one another ; 

 and give them that very extraordinary motion, which is perceived 

 in fome chemical bodies, and has fo much of the operation of 

 mind in it, that it is called elcclive attraElion ; as by it the body, 

 quiting one body with which it had joined itfelf, attaches itfelf to 

 another. 



I have faid a great deal of the philofophy of Sir Ifaac Newton in 

 the three firft volumes of this work, to which I refer the reader, if 

 he would defire to know more concerning it ; and he may alfo read 

 fome queries, upon the fubjed, which I have put in volume V. of 

 the Origin and Progrefs of Language *. But, I think, I have faid 

 enou"-h here to convince him, that Sir Ifaac did not clearly under- 

 ftand the nature of an immaterial fubftance, and particularly of that 

 immaterial fubftance which is the author, originally or immediately, 

 of all the motions in this univerfe. 



As I have fliown in what country arts and fciences had their ori- 

 oin, I think it is proper, that I Ihould alfo give an account where 

 rehgion began. And it is my opinion, that it began in the fame 

 country where arts and fciences had their origin; with which, reli- 

 gion, as I have fhown, is neceffarily connected. This country is 

 Egypt ; and if the reader be convinced, by what I have faid, that 

 man is not capable of religion, till he has formed civil fociety, and 

 has made fome progrefs in the ufe of intellect, more than is necef- 

 fary for the invention and pradice of the neceflary arts of life ; and 



if, 



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