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The laft operation of the human intelled that I fhall obferve, Is that 

 by which, abftrading Itfelf from all outward things, it turns, as it 

 were, upon itfelf, and makes itfelf its own objed ; or, as it may be ex- 

 prefled in one word, refieSis, This is the great operation of intelledl, 

 by which, more than by any thing elfe, we are diftinguiflied from the 

 brute, and of which, therefore, 1 fhall have occafion in the fequel to 

 fay a great deal more. 



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