Chap. IV. A N T I E N T M E T A P H Y S I C S. 37 



motions of this univerfe, propofing ends and devifmg means; for 

 all the other three minds I have mentioned only move bodies, but 

 have no intelligence by which their motions are to be guided j and 

 though we have intelligence, it is, as I have faid, an impcrfeft one. 

 There muft, therefore, be a fuperior intelligence, by which all the 

 motions of the univerfe, many and various iis they are, are guided 

 and directed to certain ends: And this fuperior intelligence, therefore, 

 is God^ the author of all the order and beauty which we obferve in 

 the univerfe; and which, as it is not incoiporated with body, as 

 our intelligence is, ads without impediment or moleftation, and 

 therefore is perfedl and fupreme intelligence, and is the author of 

 this univerfe, which could nnt be conceived without that order and 

 arrangement of things that wc obferve in it. But of this I Ihall fay 

 a great deal more in the fequel. 



To what I have faid upon the fubjedl of minds moving bodies, it 

 will not, I think, be improper to add fomething concerning the ge- 

 neral laws of motion of natural bodies. 



As motion is the grand agent in all the operations of nature, if It 

 was not governed by certain rules, the univerfe could not be a fyf- 

 tem. What 1 am to confider here of motion, is not the caufe of it, 

 of which I have fpoken elfewhere, nor the effeds it may produce, 

 but what is eflential to it, the quicknefs or flownefs of it : And that 

 depends upon the time which it takes to go through a certain fpace; 

 for Time is the meafure of Motion. The motion, therefore, which 

 carries a body through a certain fpace in a fliorter time than ano- 

 ther body is carried through the fame fpace, is a quicker motion; 

 whereas that which carries it through the fame fpace in a longer 

 time, is a flower motion. 



Of the ratio which the motions of body have to one another ii- 



thl^ 



