has been defined the faculty of doing or suffering anything. Power, therefore, is two-fold, viz. considered as able to make, or able to receive, any change; the former whereof may be called active, and the latter passive power: but this distinction is improper. See Metaphysics, p. 116.

mechanics, denotes any force, whether of a man, a horse, a spring, the wind, water, &c., which being applied to a machine, tends to produce motion.

law, signifies in general a particular authority granted by any person to another to represent him, or to act in his stead.