98 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book 11. 



As to that degree of reafon, or faculty of comparing their percep- 

 tions, which we fee in fonne brutes, I think it is not common to them 

 all, nor eflential to the fenfitive nature^ but peculiar to fome brutes of 

 the hlgheft order ; but, as it is common to all men, and is an effential 

 part of the conftltution of the human mindy I fliall fpeak of it in the 

 next chapter, in which I am to treat of that mind. 



11th chapters of Ariftotle's 3d book De /inima. And here we may obfervethe dliFe- 

 rence betwixt the phantafia of the man and of the brute', for the phantafia of the 

 man has very often the recollection of time joined with it, whereas the brute has no 

 idea of timey but only a fimple perception of the identity of the objecl:, which he at- 

 tains by comparing the obje£l of fenfe now perceived by him with the image re- 

 tained iu his phantafia of the fame objeft formerly perceived. 



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