wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

Chap. III. Acheijlkal Hylozoift. 109flick, as governing and fwaying the whole, but only fuppofing the feveralparts of matter to have fo many plaftick Jives of their own, he muft needsattribute fomething to fortune, and make the mundane fyflem to dependupon a certain mixture of chance and phftick or orderly nature both too-ether,and confequently muft be an Hylozoift. Thus we fee, that thefe aretwo fchcmes ofatheifn, very dilTerent from one another ' ; that, which fetchesthe original of all things from the mere fortuitous and unguidcd motion ofmatter, without any vital or direftive principle ; and that, which deiives itfrom a certain mixture of chance and the life of matter both together, itfuppofing a plaftick life, not in the whole univerfe, as one thing, but in allthe feveral parts ol matter by tliemfclves ; the firft of v/hich is the Atomickand Demccritick atheifm, the fecond the Hylozoick and Straconick,VII. It may berhaps be fufpeflcd by fome, that tlie famous Hippocrates,who lived long before Strata, was an aflertor of the HyJozoick atheifm, \n ^-'r'l"k.becaufe of fuch palTages in him as thefe, drrxi^cjT^ i ipjc-if sx t« o-ji's * //«- a.Tom. II.^viry. rx oiovra. 7:on7r Nature is unlearned or untaught, but it learneth fro;n it-^^°^- p-felf what things it ought to do: and again, a.-jv>al(Ty.u >, (pJo-ij ajrii ix.rf, raj ^"^"^'^is