"Indeed, a few authors have run even such lengths, as to suppose the very animus, or rational soul itself, material: but surely the powers and faculties of the mind are not to be found in matter, or in any of those principles, or elements, whereof either the antients or moderns have imagined it to consist: fire itself, the most subtile and active among these, being as incapable of thought and reflexion, as water or earth, the most sluggish: and in what manner self-motion, sense or reason can possibly result from the figure, connexion, situation or arrangement of the various parts of the body, (without supposing a mind) is a point which the abettors of Materialism, to their confusion, will never be able to clear up."
An Essay on the Vital and Other Involuntary Motions of Animals
3 entries in ESTC (1751, 1763, 1768).<br>
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Robert Whytt, <u>An Essay on the Vital and Other Involuntary Motions of Animals</u> (Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, 1751). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=eCz7KJ_6XYIC">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;