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a mind which has perceptions by the fenfes, and confequently is ca- 

 pable of pleafurc and pain, they would have good reafon to be fur- 

 priicd. Lut the mind I give to the vegetable, is only a mind that 

 moves the ieveral parts of it, by which, as I have faid, it is nou- 

 riihed, grows, and propagates its kind. Now a man, who believes 

 thai all the various operations of the vegetable, by which it grows 

 and is nourifhed, puts forth leaves, flowers, and fruits, are all per- 

 formed by mere matter and mechanifm, without the operation of 

 mind, may alfo believe, as I have faid elfewherc *, that all the ope- 

 rations of nature are performed by matter or body without mind : 

 And he muft likewife believe that he himfelf has not a vegetable 

 mind, and confequently has not that trinity in his nature, which 

 makes him the image of God here on earth. 



I come next to fpeak of the other organized bodies I have men- 

 tioned, I mean animals^ whofe {lru(3:ure is much more various than 

 that of vegetables, and confequently their operations are fo alfo. 

 And I will begin with the brute animals, which will lead me 

 directly to the fubjecl I am now to confider, viz. the difference be- 

 twixt man and brute. But before I come to fpeak of that, I 

 think it will be proper to explain how thefe different forms of bo- 

 dies, by which fome are organized fome not organized, are pro- 

 duced, and likewife the great difference v/hich we obferve in the or- 

 ganized bodies from one another, and alfo in the unorganized bo- 

 dies fuch as minerals ; in fhort to give fome account of the produc- 

 tion of all the various forms of bodies. 



To fay that matter of itfelf, by a vis tnfita^ as Sir Ifaac 

 Newton expreffes it, has produced all thefe forms, would I 

 think be downright materialifm ; for it would be giving to 

 matter a power by which the whole material world has been 



formed. 



• Vol. V. of this work, p. 215. 



