LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 15 



phaenomena, together with the emotions of the 

 mind, can only derive their origin from the great 

 primum mobile of all the inscrutable FIRST CAUSE. 

 Ti$ f] rrjs /aircrew? ap^r] ei/ ry "^fvyri ', &r)\ov Bs, 

 axTTrep ev TO> 6A<j>, Qeo$, KO.I TTO.V Kivu>" Ktvei yap, 

 Trcof 7rat>Ta, TO v 'HMIN Qetov. " What is the 

 beginning of motion in the soul 9 It is clear that it 

 is, as in the universe, the DEITY himself) and all in 

 Him; for the Divinity moves in us, as it moves all 

 things" Thus spoke the son of the old heathen 

 Greek physician of Stagira. It is a sentiment 

 which would not misbecome the lips of any Chris- 

 tian of the present day. 



We have now taken a view, in the gross, of the 

 several parts of which man is made up. But, in 

 contemplating the new Being-, as we have seen him 

 turned out of the hands of our imaginary Pro- 

 metheus, has it not struck you, that something 

 extremely necessary to his safety had been for- 

 gotten ? Let us suppose, that the first living thing 

 he meets, after his creation, is a wolf, gaunt with 

 hunger. He cannot flee from him ; for the wolf 

 is swifter than he : he cannot resist him ; for the 

 wolf is stronger than he : he must perish, for want 

 of u-eapons of defence. In vain do his organs of the 

 senses warn him of the approach of danger : he can 



