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that the imprelTiori made upon the organ does, not reach to the mind ; 

 fo that, ' feeing ive fee^ and do not percei'ue ;' which convinces me that 

 there is fomething more than mere paffivity in the perception of ob- 

 je6ls of fenfe, and that the mind acts as well as fijfdrs ; though the 

 one follows tlie other fo inf^antaneoully, that it is only the philofopher 

 that can m,;ke the ciiRindion : And, in general, it appears to me, that 

 all xht gnojlic^ o\' perceptive powers of the mind, mul^, of neceihty, be 

 adive ; for, to knoiv, or io perceive, is to aS't ; and the only ditFerence 

 that, in this refpcdt, can be betwixt tiicm, is, that fome of them, muft 

 be roufed to aclion, by external impreffionsnK.de upon the nnnd, or, 

 in other words, that the mind mudjuffer before it ads ; whereas, o- 

 thers of them ac} without any (uch Ji/ferings. And, lajl/y, the Jeftfa- 

 tion-t or adual perception of tiie objed, and the faculty oi perception, 

 or \.\\efenfe^ as 1 chufe to call it, are as different as pozutr and adUality'^ 

 or l^Jfocu^i^ an.d sv:§y««, as the Greek philofophcrs expreis it. 



The other kind of particular objeds, which, I faid, was perceived 

 in this way, is the images of fenfible things preierved in ([\q phantafta : 

 And it is to be cbferved, that there is here, too, a great confufion of 

 language ; for there are here three things to be diitinguilhed ; Jirji^ 

 The repofitory, as it may be called, of inch images ; 2r//y, The faculty 

 the mind has of perceiving them ; and, InJIly^ The ad of perception. 

 Now, for all thefe three, 1 know but one word, even in Greek, and 

 that is, phantafia. And yet it is evident that, in analyzing the opera- 

 tions of the mind, thefe three muft carefully be diftinguilhed, other- 

 ways we fhall ntver be able fufficiently to dilUnguifh, in this matter, 

 the man from the brute ; for, as to the phantafia itfelf, and the paint- 

 ing of the images there, to ufe Plato's metaphor, I. do not know that 

 there is any great difference betwixt us and the more perfedf brute 

 animals. But, as to the faculty of perceiving thcle images, and the 

 adual perception of them, there is a great difference; for the brute 

 never perceives any of thefe images, unlefs prompted by fome bodily 



appetite. 



