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we think proper. And thus it appears, that we have withui our- 

 felve?, and in our little world, a proof of the power of mind, which 

 ihould convince the greatefl infidel of V\^hat the fupreme mind may 

 do in the great world. 



By the motions of our bodies, performed in the manner I have 

 defcribcd, our other two minds are guided and conduded; for up- 

 on the motions of our bodies, external or internal, depend the oper- 

 ations of our vegetable life, by which we grow and are nourifhed, 

 and likewife of our elemental life; for, by thefe motions, our bodies 

 may be put in fuch a pofition as to be affeded by that life, and to 

 be carried either downward, or to right or left in a flraight line, if 

 they are fo impelled. 



The next thing to be confidered, in this our kingdom, is how the 

 fubjeds obey their fovereign ; Is it from an opinion, that what he 

 orders is right and fit to be done, or is it without any opinion or 

 any knowledge of any kind ? As to the vegetative and elemental 

 minds, it is evident that they have no knowledge, will, or incUna- 

 tion of any kind ; but neceflarily follow the motions of the body, as 

 neceflarily as a ftone falls or as flame afcends. But it is otherwife with 

 the animal mind, for though it have not reafon in itfelf, it can hear- 

 ken to reafon. But it has appetites and defires of its own, by which 

 it is often guided independent of reafon and contrary to reafon*. 



That not only our animal mind, but the animal mind of the brute, 

 is moved by certain defires, and often by different dufires at the 

 fame time, fo that he deliberates which of them he fhall follow, is 

 a fad that cannot be difputed. Thus a dog deliberates whether he 



fhall 



* See, upon this fubjeO, Ariftotle De Morihus, Lib. i. Cap. 13. where be makes the 

 fame diilin(ftioi), that I do, betwixt the anmial and vegetable uunds. 



