An essay on the powers and mechanism of nature; : intended, by a deeper analysis of physical principles, to extend, improve, and more firmly establish, the grand superstructure of the Newtonian system. / By Robert Young.
- Young, Robert
- Date:
- M DCC LXXXVIII. [1788]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on the powers and mechanism of nature; : intended, by a deeper analysis of physical principles, to extend, improve, and more firmly establish, the grand superstructure of the Newtonian system. / By Robert Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 75 ] one: thus his fecond ftep is ailfo denied. Ideas are not paffions, but aftions; but if they be paflions, motion is fomething more than an idea, it is proved to be aftion ; confequehtly, the con- clufion that motion is no a6lion is proved to be erroneous. . ‘ Since, therefore, motion is action, and motion l does not depend always on our will, we are acquainted with other a61:ions befides thofe of our volition (q 68). Hence is deftroyed the ground on which our m author inferred a dire6l fuperior volition without us, in all thofe a6lions which our volition did not perform. He fays, If motion be no aftion, can you n conceive of any action befides volition ?'* But motion is action, therefore thepremifes are done away. The objeflions (r 68) againfl a mediate in- o ftrument, or fecondary caufe, are already, in great part removed, fince we know, in fa6t, of fuch an inftrument. If, by my volition, I produce a motion, that p motion is not a volition, but it produces another L 2 motion](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2878196x_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
