6 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book I. 



ibat Sir Ifaacs do&r'ine has no foundation in nature : — I ft, From 

 the nature of motion ; 2dly, From faB and obfervation. — Sir Ifaac 

 did not afcrihe his oivn motions to mind^ but to ethers and fubtilc 



fluids. — The exifience of thefe not proved. — That our bodies are 

 moved by our minds., efahlifjed by confcioujnefs : — By analogy, we 

 afcribe the motions of other animals to minds alfo, and even the mo- 

 tion of the vegetable, and of unorganifed bodies. — Abfurdity of Sir 

 Ifaac' s doSlrine of the caife of motion. — The phaenomenon of At- 

 traElion, and particularly of EleSlive AttraEli;n and of the LoadflonCy 

 only to be accounted for from mind. — Obfervations on this autient doc- 

 trine, of mind being the original coufe of all motion. — It is agree- 

 able to Scripture. — Attraction and cohefion afcribed to mind by the 

 Antients. — The motions by impulfe, hoiv to be afcribed to mind. — Sir 

 Ifaac admits, in this cafe, that the motion is carried on by the vis 

 infita, and not by the impulfe, which has ceafed : — But he erred in 

 holding this vis as belonging to body. — Agreement betwixt the Au- 

 thor s philofophy and that ofTimaeus the Locrian. — Of the univerfal 

 influence of Motion in the operations of nature and in thofc of our 

 minds. — Though all motion be produced by minds, yet many of thefe 

 minds not intelligent, but only direSled by intelligence. — The elemen- 

 tal mind, which is incorporated, gives a better idea offuchfubfla fi- 

 xes to vulgar apprehenfion, than the higher orders of mind. — Py- 

 thagoras fitfl taught us to know the ra. ovtui; ovix — The frfl philo- 



fophers sf Greece materialifls. — Anaxagoras the fr/l who employed 

 mind. — A mind moves each particular body. — All minds derived 

 from God, the frfl caiife of all. 



IN this material world, we know that not only Bodies exift, but 

 Minds animating thefe bodies. That our own minds exift, we 

 know, as I have faid, by the moft certain of all knowledge, confci- 

 oufneCs : That the minds of other men exift, and that they are of 



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