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tion, let us recur to another master mind, whose grand 

 intellect was absorbed, not in problems of experimental 

 philosophy, but in fathoming the essence of things. 



Newton develops one law, the law of inertia; that is, 

 that matter is not self-moving, but remains at rest till 

 it is moved, and then continues moving in the direction 

 impelled, till it is stopped. Plato also savs that matter 

 is inert, and moves only as it is moved. But he con- 

 siders farther, what is it that causes motion ? For 

 instance, in the Phsedrus, while proving the immor- 

 tality of the soul, he says: "And therefore the self- 

 moving is the beginning of motion. But if the self- 

 moving is immortal, he who affirms that self-motion is 

 the very idea and essence of the soul will not be put to 

 confusion, for the body which is moved from without is 

 soulless; but that which is moved from within has a 

 soul, and this is involved in the nature of a soul." 



Holding that all motion,, that is, all force, is simply 

 the exercise of a spiritual being, when he comes, in the 

 Timaeus, to explain the origin and creation and opera- 

 tion of the universe, he accounts for the forces and 

 motions of nature, by holding that the universe is a 

 living being. As the spiritual must precede the cor- 

 poreal, Plato says, " God first created the universe, a 

 spirit, a soul;" then adds, "Now, when the Creator 

 had framed the soul according to his will, he formed 

 within the mind the corporeal universe, and brought 

 them together and united them centre to centre. The 

 soul, interfused everywhere from centre to the circum- 

 ference of heaven, of which she is the external envelop- 

 ment, herself turning in herself, began a divine begin- 



