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CHAP. X. 



The Human and^xuXQ^Vxn^hfpecificaUy different — If they be of diff'erent 

 Speciefes^ there muji he fixed Boundaries betivixt them — Comparifon 

 of the tivo — No Companion betivixt us and the loivejl Kind of Am- 

 mals — The Cojnpanfon only betivixt us and the higher Sort — DiJ/er^ 

 ent Specie/es of Animals 7nufl have different Mmds — Comparijon of 



* our Senfes ivith thofe of other Animals — Tivo Differences betivixt 

 our Phantafia and that oj the Brute — Difference bctivixt our Com- 

 parative Faculty and that of the Brute-^-One Cla/s of the Objects of 

 Human Perception quite different from thoje perceived by the Brute 

 — Therefore the Faculty different — Man recognizes himfelf — The 

 Brute not — Comparijon of the Orectic Poivers of the Man and Brute 

 — Thoje of the Brute^ being directed by Nature^ do no hurt, — Tho/b 

 of the Matt, being guided by Opinion, do a great deal — Summary of 

 the Account of the Human Mind^ and oJ that of the Brute — The Er^ 

 ror of our Modern PhiloJophe*s in confounding Ideas and Per- 

 ceptions of Senje — Objection that^ though other Anivuds have not 

 the Ufe of InlciUct^ they may have the Faculty — That Objection an- 

 Jivered, 



ALTHOUGH, from the preceeding charters, it be evident 

 that,! think, the human mind is \eiy diiiCciu from thv^ brute, 

 and of a nature much fupcrior ; and. although it be not difficult to 

 coiled:, from what is faid there, the arguments that move me to ihink 

 fo ; yet, as it is a ivatter o{' fuch ci nfeqaencc, I have thought it not 

 knproper to 1 ate, in his chapier, iholo arguments by iliemrdves, un- 

 mixed with any tiiin^ die. lur ihe liuman Uiind is fo intiu.attiy 



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