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fubftances, Anaxagoras, as he tells us, was the firft man in Greece 

 who employed mind in the formation of the univerfe ; whereas, 

 tlie philofophers before him produced every thing from one or other 

 or all of the four elements. Every thing, therefore, according to 

 thofe philofophers, was material, and their Gods among other things; 

 for they were all embodied, and had all the appetites, dehres, and 

 paffions belonging to an embodied fubftance. Of thefe Gods Cicero 

 has given us a long catalogue in his third book, De Nattira Dcoriim: 

 And in his fecond book he has let us know, that the Stoics made 

 the Muiiifiis, or material world^ their God ; which, they faid, had 

 every perietTtion, and intelligence among the red. But the intelli- 

 gence, which is very evident in the works of nature, they did not 

 diftingui(h from that fupreme intelligence, which has given the ma- 

 terial world all the intelligence which appears in it ; and they feem 

 to have fuppofed that the matter, which compofes the material 

 world, had intelligence in itfelf : So that even thofe philofophers in 

 Greece, who were in fuch high eftimation, do not appear to have 

 made the diftindtion betwixt matter and mind. 



Thus, I think, I have fhown, that all motion proceeds from mind^ 

 mediately or immediately ; and as this power of moving is an attri- 

 bute of all mind, whereas, other powers, fuch as thofe of thinking 

 and reafoning, belong to certain minds only, 1 think 1 have very 

 properly made it the general definition of mind*'. 



In this manner I hope I have fhown moft clearly, that the bodies 

 in this material world muft be moved by mind: And as body is on- 

 ly moved by mind incorporated with it, it is impoflible that all the 

 bodies of the material world can be moved by one mind; fo that there 

 muft be a mind moving each feparate body. Now, thefe feveral 

 minds muft proceed from one general or univerfal mind; for the or- 



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