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without which there would be no order or regularity in tlie uni- 

 verfe, and nothing but a chaos or a confufed mafs of things. From 

 the third perfon of the Trinity, or the Holy Spirit, proceed 

 thofe minds, which animate and give life and adion to all things ia 

 the univerfe, to animals, vegetables, and to bodies unorganized, 

 fuch as minerals, and even to the elements, the earth, air, fire 

 and water. For this reafon I call it the elemental life ; and 

 it may be called the univerfal life, fince all bodies of every kind, 

 organized and not organized, are moved by it, either up or 

 down or in the diredion in which they are impelled ; for I hold 

 there is no fuch thing in nature as body either beginning mo- 

 tion, or continuing it by a vis infila in matter. Now as all the ideas 

 of Plato are immaterial fubflances, or minds, and produce every 

 thing in nature, giving to body not only motion but form and all 

 its qualities, it would be moft extraordinary if thefe minds fhould 

 have no exiflence by themfelves, when even Body, which is only 

 the fubjecH: upon which mind operates, exifts by itfelf. And as they 

 all proceeded from the Deity, it mud have been in the moft orderly 

 and regular manner, that is in general ideas, which are the ideas 

 the moft excellent, and from which all other ideas are produced in 

 regular order ; firft the moft general ideas, then the lefs general pro- 

 duced from them, and fo on down to the leaft general of all, pro- 

 ducing nothing but particular ideas, fuch as aniinal, the loweft fpe- 

 ciefcs, and the individuals under them ; fo that every thing from the 

 firft caufe is both produced, and produces; — all excejit individuals, 

 which are produced but do not produce, except in a way different 

 from the produdions I have mentioned. Nothing therefore can be 

 conceived more regular or orderly than this progrcflion of caufes 

 and the produdions from thefe caufes, or more clofely joined toge- 

 ther, every thing bmig produced and producing. 



The firft produdion from the third perfon of the Trinity, the 

 U u 2 principle, 



