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or performed mechanically. The body is amachine;, and that extremely complicated;

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a billiard ball is a thing'moVcd, though it moves an°*ther ball.

' As to what is fad, that it is not right to diminish too f afthe mechanical part of the contrivance and conduit offabrick of the Universe: I must observe that the mecha-nical part, so far as regards the nice structure and contri-vance of an animal or vegetable body, or the dispositionof the material universe in general, is no way diminish"ed in this account: all the infinitely nice adjustmentof one thing or part to another, still remains as it wa s 'all the wife ordering o {p roper means to atttain every efd*is as conspicuous after what is advanced here is allowedas it would be otherwise. Let me ask: Is not the con-trivance of the several parts of a watch, in order t0strew the hour by the turning of the index, still as arti-ficial and ingenious, though one asserts that the elast lCl'ty of the spring is no power planted in dead matter,

'a constant impulse ab extra ; as it would be otherwise'There is certainly no difference, nor any thing to rnak eany alteration ; and the cafes are just alike. But ^would have the motive power itself planted in dead m 3 *ter; that is, dead matter to be living inatter , (forI think it is to be self-movent) to answer bur notion 0mechanical contrivance. Let us look into any bookanatomy, or natural philosophy, where the skill ^knowledge of mechanical contrivance is explained, 311we shall not find that the particular instances alledged fintended to shew whence the origin of motion is; oU"a fine tnachinery may be a power to itself: but only to+

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