Again, one finds a Lockean echo of this idea (which may be no accident): Locke sometimes suggests that matter itself is passive in the sense that it cannot move itself; instead, motion must be "superadded" to it by God.
(DJN I.1.2 3) Some moral entities are said to "flow naturally from things themselves, as it were, while others are superadded to physical things … by an intelligent power" (DJN I.1.3; Pufendorf 1994a, p. 100).
As a further check, a council of revision including the great ministerial officers might be superadded.
For Abner, everybody has a layer of pure divine existence, to which are superadded other forms and accidents; but if the body is stripped of all of these accretions it will be reduced to the original divine substance only.
He argued that insofar as sanctions are superadded to the moral rightness or wrongness of the act there is no connection between the sanction and the rightness or wrongness of the action beyond the arbitrary will of the legislator.
Furthermore, three items were added (e.g. 'religious conviction', 'the address and telephone number' of the general practitioner and the contact person, and 'usual residence' was superadded to 'admitted from').
However, Locke allows, it is possible that God has superadded the power of thought directly to matter.
(Reporting a heavy heart at the birth of a daughter into slavery, Jacobs writes, "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own").
Newton consistently denies that it is essential (for instance in his explanatory remarks following Rule 3 of the Principia) and Locke refers to it only as power superadded or endowed by God.
