vi.); that is, it cannot spring from the mind, which is a mode of thought.

This was our second point.

Therefore body cannot determine mind, &c.
Q.E.D.
Note .-- This is made more clear by what was said in the note to II.vii., namely, that mind and body are one and the same thing, conceived first under the attribute of thought, secondly, under the attribute of extension.

Thus it follows that the order or concatenation of things is identical, whether nature be conceived under the one attribute or the other; consequently the order of states of activity and passivity in our body is simultaneous in nature with the order of states of activity and passivity in the mind.

The same conclusion is evident from the manner in which we proved II.