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mind only*. Nor, indeed, when wc confider that by mind bodies 

 are made to go together and to join, as in the cafe of eledive at- 

 tradion, {hould we wonder, that by the fame power of mind 

 they fhould cohere and be kept together when they are joined. 



This philofophy, which teaches us that all bodies, unorganized 

 as well as organized, have in them an immaterial principle, or mind, 

 which moves them, accounts for all the motions in the univerfe, 

 which cannot be otherwife accounted for ; and, among others, for 

 the motion of bodies impelled by other bodies, or of projectiles, 

 which, after the impulfe has ceafed, continue their motion for fome 

 time. That the motion is not continued by the impulfe that has 

 ceafed, I think is certain ; for there muft be a prefent caufe acting 

 upon the body, otherwife It could not continue to be moved : And 

 fo far Sir Ifaac is in the right, that he does not fuppofe that the mo- 

 tion is continued by the impulfe which has ceafed, but fays that it is 

 carried on by a vis tnfita^ or power inherent in the body. But his er- 

 ror is in fuppofmg that it is any power belonging to body that car- 

 ries on the motion ; for, I think, 1 have fliown, that it is not body, 

 nor any power belonging to body, but that mind I call the ele- 

 mental mind, by which bodies are moved up, or down, or in that di- 

 redion in which they are impelled. 



And here we may obferve how well this philofophy, of mind be- 

 ing the principle of motion in all bodies, agrees with that moft an- 

 tient and valuable piece of philofophy, the treatife of Timaeus the 



Locrian, 



* See what I have faiJ upon this fubjeft in vol. I. of this work, p. 86. where I 

 have ftiown that, without this power of mind, there could be no animal or vegetable, 

 rock or mountain, or any thing elevated upon the face of the earth ; for it is a power 

 which overcomes even gravitation, making the inferior parts of any body adhere to the 

 fuperior, when otherwife, by the power of gravitation, they would fall down toward^ 

 the centre, and be fpread into an horizontal furface like a fluid. 



