inaSUvityof Matter, &c. 125

duced by the power of God, yet we shallfind this exception so qualified that his imme-diate efficiency is as much concerned in these,and as necessary, as in any other motionwhatsoever. In effect, we do little more but'will the production of the motion; and instrict propriety of speech, he is not only thefirsts but the sole Mover. Animal life con-sists in a circulation of fiuids , where matter ,originally impelled by some power, ab extra,a Sis on matter with a certain determined forceor moment, which arises solely from ares stanceto a change of its si ate, (N° 19. sect. 1.) andwhatever matter were void of that resisiancewould be of m use in the mechanism of ananimal body. For as, on that supposition, itwould have been absurd to have enquired fora Mover , since matter making no resistanceto motion, no power or force (that is, thepower or force of no being) was necessary

ject. Spheres of activity are material impulse, immate-rial power exerted, or nothing: If material impulse; theimpelling matter acts, not any distant particle. Headds, these attractions may be performed by i?npulse, ersome other means unknown. But if it is not by materialimpulse, where resisting matter (or matter moved ab ex-tra ) acts on resisting matter, it must be by immaterialpower exerted: since material attraction, that is matteracting at a distance, is repugnant to reason. to