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complwe, as Epicurus accounted both for the beginning and continuation of motion. 

 — Reafons for thcfe ftriiflnrcs in Sir Ifaac'S philofophy. — He compounded the mo- 

 tions of the Ccleftiil Bodies, of projection and gravitation. — Projeftion, only pro- 

 duced by the operation of body upon body. — Gravitation, according to his doftrine, 

 produced by other boilies. — He had no idea of motion by mind, which can move 

 bodies in any direQion ; — was ignorant of Ariftotle's maxim, That Nature does no- 

 thing unnectflary. — IMaterialifm and the imputation of atheifm unavoidable, accord- 

 ing to his fyltem of the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies. — Of Derham's Syftem of 

 the Heavens : — All the motions there, according to him, to be afcribed to the im- 

 mediate operation of Divinity : — Reafons for rejecting this hypothefis. — The Ccleftial 

 Bodies moved by minds intellectual. — Comparifon of the motions of the Ccleftial 

 Bodies with motions on earth produced by projcftion and gravitation. — Proof both a 

 priori and a pojlcriori, that Sir Ifaac's doftrine has no foundation in Nature : — \J}, 

 From the nature of motion ; 2dly, From fadl and obfervation. — Sir Ifaac did not 

 afcribe his own motions to mind, but to ethers and fubtile fluids. — The exiftence of 

 thefe not proved. — That our bodies are moved by our minds, eftabUflied by con- 

 fcloiifneis : — By analogy, we afcribe the motions of other animals to minds alfo, and 

 even the motion of the vegetable, and of unorganifed bodies. — Abfurdity of Sir 

 Ifaac's doftrine of the caufe of motion. — The phaenomenon of Attraftion, and par- 

 ticularly of Ele(Slive Attraction and of the Loadftone, only to be accounted for from 

 mind. — Obfcrvations on this antient doiStrine, of mind being the original caufe of all 

 motion. — It is agreeable to Scripture — Attraction and cohefion afcribed to mind by 

 the Antients. — ^The motions by imptilfe, how to be afcribed to mind. — Sir Ifaac ad- 

 mits, in this cafe, that the motion is carried on by the vis itijita^ and not by the im- 

 pulfe, which has ceafed : — But he erred in holding this vis as belonging to body. — 

 Agreement betwixt the Author's philofophy and that of Timaeus the Locrian. — Of 

 the univerfal influence of Motion in the operations of nature and in thofe of our 

 ininds. — Though all motion be produced by minds, yet many of thefe minds not in- 

 telligent, but only dircdted by intelligence — The elemental mind, which is incorpo- 

 rated, gives a better idea of fuch fubftances to vulgar apprehenfion, than the higher 

 orders of mind. — Pythagoras firft taught us to know the t« <>»t«-? o>t«. — ^The firft 

 philolophers of Greece materialifts. — Anaxagoras the firft who employed mind. — A 

 mind moves each particular body. — All minds derived from God, the firft caufe 

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