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fliown, be moved without mind. But we can conceive them to be 

 moved by an infinite number of inferior minds, proceeding all from 

 the third perfon of the Divinity, that is the Holy Spirit, or Principle 

 of Life and Animation in the Univerfe. 



In this fenfe, therefore, it is true what Virgil fays, 



Principio caelum ac terras, campofque liquentes, 

 Lucentemque globum Lunae, Titaniaque aftra, 

 Spiritus intus alit, totamque infufa per artus 

 Mens agitat molem, et magno fe corpore mifcet. 



^N. Lib. VI. t. 724. 



And alfo what he fays in another pafTage, 



— '■ Deum namque ire per omnes 



Terrafque, traiflufque maris, coelumque profundum. 



Georg. Lib. IV. V. 221. 



And indeed I think I fee every where a prefent Deity, not onlv 

 in the heavens above me, which are no doubt the moft magnificent 

 exhibition of his wifdom, goodnefs, and power, and therefore are 

 faid in our fcripture, io declare the glory of the Lord, but in every 

 thing I fee here on earth, and particularly in the actions of the brute 

 animals, which are dire£ted, not as ours are by our weak intelli- 

 gences, but by Divine Wifdom, which has formed their minds fo, 

 that upon every occafion they do what is beft for the prefervation of 

 the individual and the continuation of the fpecies ; and indeed the 

 operations of fome animals are fo direQed and guided by their in- 

 ftin(fi, not in one operation only, but in a fucceffion of operations, 

 all for the two purpofes above mentioned, as to exceed any thing 

 that man's intelligence, aflifted by the organs of our bodies, fuch 

 as our hands, or by any inftruments of art, could perform. In the 

 economy of animals I fee a prefent Deity, more than in the 



motion? 



