Chap. I. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 2S3 



thefe laft is man^ who appears to be the loweft of intcllcdiial beings, 

 but is the chief animal of tliis earth, being there the only intellec- 

 tual being. From the third perfon of the trinity, the Holy Spirit, 

 proceed all the other minds in this univerfe, and particularly the 

 minds which animate bodies on this earth, and give them motion 

 and action : Of thefe bodies fome are organized and fome not or- 

 ganized. By organized bodies I mean bodies that have parts called 

 organs, which perform certain motions by themfelves, that arc 

 iifeful to the whole body ; and this is the cafe of animals and plants : 

 Whereas unorganized bodies have no fuch organs, and therefore are 

 moved altogether and diredly and immediately by the mind in 

 them ; and that is the cafe of minerals, fuch as earth, floncs, and 

 metals. 



But there is one mind which moves equally without diftin^iion 

 all bodies, organized and unorganized ; and it is a mind, which 

 giv^es life and animation to all nature, and therefore I think may not 

 improperly be called the anima mundi. This mind I call the ele- 

 mental mind, as it moves, amoiig other things, the elements ; but it 

 is called by Ariftotle, not impropeily, nature, being the principle of 

 motion in all natural bodies *. 



The minds I am now to fpeak of are not univcrfal, fuch as the 

 elemental mind, but belong only to particular fubje£ls ; I mean 

 bodies organized, fuch as vegetables and animals f. The vegetable 

 has in it a mind which moves different organs or members of it, fuch 

 as its roots, branches, and leaves ; by which motion the vegetable is 

 nouriflied, grows, and propagates its kind. Our modern philofo- 

 phers I know will be furprifed that I fhould give a mind to a vege- 

 table. If I gave it an intelledual or even an animal mind, that is 



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* See Vol. II. of this work, p. 360. 



t Of the different kinds of Mind, fee p. 34, &c. of this Vol. 



