144 - The consequences of the

words. The first thing observable in It is*that it doth not exclude, but suppose mechanical

motion-

of all other animals; why do they not settle into an ho-rizontal surface, like a fluid ? It is because the attract * 011of cohesion hinders that of gravitation to take place-Without this there would be neither mountain, norheight, nor descent for rivers, nor bank, nor store, n° rvegetable nor animal bodies .. The consistency of thing 3therefore depends on this contrariety of impulse on th esame individual particles of matter: and a contrariety °fimpulse on the same individual particles of matter undent'ably proceeds from a Cause external to matter.

And here I can’t help taking notice of some ani-madversions that have been made on this acco***^of mechanism, contained in these five last paragraph 3 'and the neceflity contended for, of the constant act * 0 ' 1of an external power in all mechanical motion. It hathbeen observed that when I stew that animals requirethan mechanism, Iseem herefill to require new laws ; A* 1 "that yet some of my arguments are not good, when elafi cl 'ty, fermentation, rarefaction from heat , &c, are all<rO>^‘fhat it is not right to diminist too far themec hanicalpsof the contrivance and conduct of the fabrick of the bl ,n 'verse ; that if I bring in too many laws and principle 5tuating and governing the snotions in st, it has great "vadvantages; and that when a vaf number of dijf 5> flaws, often clasting, appear in my scheme, it will ret> Ssome againf it. That it muf be remembred that the t,nputing the motions of animals in a great measure tomachinery is st far from derogating from the power afiwisdom of God, that from hence arises the bef demots fa

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