290 NATURAL THEOLOaY. 



"Necessary existence" means demonstrable existence. 



"Spirituality" expresses an idea made up of a negative 

 part and of a positive part. The negative part consists in 

 the exclusion of some of the known properties of matter, 

 especially of sohdity, of the vis inertice, and of gravitation. 

 The positive part comprises perception, thought, will, power, 

 action; by which last term is meant, the origination of 

 motion, the quality, perhaps, in which resides the essential 

 superiority of spirit over matter, " which caimot move, un- 

 less it be moved ; and cannot but move, when impelled by 

 another."* I apprehend that there can be no difficulty in 

 applying to the Deity both parts of this idea. 



* Bishop Wilkins' Principles of Natural Religion, p. 106. 



