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In motion, continues to move itfelf by a vis inftta^ that Is by a power 

 cflential to its nature : Whereas I maintain that body, when it is not 

 aded upon by another body, can of itfelf neither begin nor continue 

 its motion, but muft both begin to be moved, and continue in morion, 

 by mind. Now tliis is a moft important point in philofophy and 

 theology ; for, to maintain that motion, which is the grand agent in 

 all the operations of Nature, is begun, or carried on, by body or 

 matter, and not by the Supreme Mind, through the intervention of 

 inferior minds proceeding from him, is abfolute materialifm *. 



The apology, which I make for my cenfure of Mr Locke 

 and Sir Ifaac Newton, is, that I have derived from Greek authors 

 the philofophy which the Greeks learned from the Egyptians 

 in whofe ivifdom (or philofophy, which is the proper tranflation of 

 the Greek word <ro((>ia. in the Septuagint) Mofes was inftrud:- 

 ed. Now thefe Greek authors it does not appear that either Mr 

 Locke or Sir Ifaac ever ftudied; otherwife, I am perfuaded we fhould 

 have had from them a philofophy very different from what they have 

 given us : For Mr Locke would have been taught to di!lingui(h be- 

 twixt fenfations and ideas, and how to give a logical definition 

 of truth ; and Sir Ifaac would have learned that the Greeks knew 

 that body, if it was not moved by the impulfe of fome other body 

 could not begin motion, nor, when fo impelled, continue it after the 

 impulfe had ceafed ; in fhort, that body can be moved by mind 

 only : For, that mind moves body the antient philofophers thoui^ht 

 they knew by the moft certain of all knowledge, confLioufnefs 

 which informed them that their own bodies were not moved by 

 ethers and fubtile fluids, as Sir Ifaac fuppofes, but by their own minds. 

 So that my apology comes to this, that I do not pretend to excel 

 thefe two authors in genius or invention, but have only copied from 

 Greek authors, whom they had not read, and who got their Lam- 

 ing from Egypt, the parent country of all arts and fcienccs. 



* See what I have faid upon this fubjedt, p. 22 & 23 of this Vol. 



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