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unlrfs we maintain, with Sir Ifaac Newton*, that body can move it- 

 felf, and even with intelligence. 



That all thefe fpecicfes of things do exift on this earth we are 

 certain. What other fpcciefes of things exift in the vmiverlc, or 

 may exift on this earth, as we have not difcovered them, we cannot 

 tell. But, I think, it is certain, what Ariftotle has told us, and it 

 fhows the comprehenfive view tliat he had of Nature, that every 

 thing which is poflible to exift does exift ; and that, therefore, tue 

 univerfe is, according to the philoiophy of the Alexandrian fchool, 

 ry.r^u^'x. ruv bi^o)v^ the complement of forms ^ or fpcciefes of things. And, 

 indeed, the univerfe could not be compleat, and confequently not 

 the work of Supreme Intelligence, if it did not comprehend what- 

 ever was poflible to exift, that is, without conuadidiion to the na- 

 ture of things, or to the intcUigence of the Supreme Being which 

 is an eflcntial part of the nature ol things, and may indeed be laid 

 to be the whole nature of things. 



That tliere is but one being of perfecl intelligence, and he tlie 

 Supreme Being is evident. All the other intelleclual beings. t)i^i-e- 

 fore, muft be more or lefs inferior to him ; and accordingly rhere 

 are archangels, angels, cherubims, feraphins, and, in order to make 

 the fyftem of nature compleat, there muil be many ipeciefes of in- 

 telleclual beings below them, till we co r.e down to man, the loweft 

 fpecies of intelledual beings that we know. But whatever degree 

 of intelligence thefe beings may poflefs, they have one thing in com- 

 mon with one another, and with all fenfitive natures, that they are 

 fufccptible of pleafure and of pain, and confequently may be either 

 hnppy or miferable. The more perfeiSl intelligences are capable of 

 greater happinels than imperfcd intelligences : But I fay tiiey are 

 all as happy as their natures will admit, without excepting even man 



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