vi.).

That, therefore, which determines the mind to thought is a mode of thought, and not a mode of extension; that is (II.Def.

i.), it is not body.

This was our first point.

Again, the motion and rest of a body must arise from another body, which has also been determined to a state of motion or rest by a third body, and absolutely everything which takes place in a body must spring from God, in so far as he is regarded as affected by some mode of extension, and not by some mode of thought (II.