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tion of bodies by which any art, liberal or mechanical, is carried 

 on, that is not diredcd and conducted by our intelledlual mind. 

 And this mind not only conduds thofe arts and practices them after 

 they are invented, but alfo invents them. So that to the intel- 

 ledtual mind we owe the invention and practice of all arts, liberal, 

 mechanical, and neceflary. 



But there is one difference to be obfervcd in the operation of the 

 three feveral minds I have mentioned ; that the operations of fome 

 of rhem are produced by our will. This is the cafe of all the opera- 

 tions of our intellcdual mind, which cannot be v.-ithout our Willin'^ 

 them. The fame is the cafe of the motions of our limbs, which 

 are produced by our animal mind : Whereas the motions of our ve- 

 geiable mind go on without any aft of our will. And the fame is 

 the cafe oi our animal mind, when it conduds the fluids in our bo- 

 dies, and in that way carries on the economy of our animal life. 

 But all the three agree in this, that aSling is effential to their na- 

 ture ; nor indeed can we have any idea of mind without con- 

 fidering Ading as effential to its nature. Now in the ftate of 

 ennui our intelledual inind is altogether inadivej for it is not 

 employed in regulating the economy of our animal and vegetable 

 lives, nor in conduding the- motions of bodies in any art liberal 

 or mechanical ; neither is it employed in thinkin"- or reafoninf^ 

 upon any fubjed : So that it may be confidered as in a ftate of 

 non-exiftence. Now from what I have faid it is evident that this is 

 a moft unnatural ftate, and very different from the ftate of our other 

 two minds, which are conftantly employed in their feveral func- 

 tions ; whilft our nobler mind is not employed as it fliould be in 

 making what progrefs it can in this life, towards repairing our lofs 

 by the fall, and fo preparing us for a better ftate in the life to come 

 nor even in the common bufinefs of this life, but is altogether idle 

 and unemployed. A man living in fuch a ftate muft neceffarily be 

 a burthen upon himfelf. It !.-, therefore, not to be wondered that, 



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