26 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book I. 



der, we obferve in the univerfe, is, that Particulars proceed from Ge- 

 nerals. There niuft, therefore, be one univcrfal mind, from which 

 the particular minds, which animate fuch an infinite number of bo- 

 dies, proceed; and this univerfal mind is God, the author of all 

 the motions in the univerfe: And as all thefe m.otions are regular and 

 orderly, forming altogether a fyftem, as I fhall fliow in the fequel, 

 which can be the work of intelligence only, it is evident, that the 

 author of all thefe motions muft be a being not only intelligent, but 

 of fupreme intelligence. But, before I go to the proof of this, 1 

 will add one chapter more upon a fubje£t of fuch confequence in 

 the fyilem of the univerfe, as motion is ; and in this chapter I 

 will endeavour to account how Sir Ifaac's dodtrine of motion comes 

 to be fo imperfed and to lead to fuch bad confequences. 



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