CONTENTS. 



wzrds — Some fo perfefl as not to exift at all in Matter — Of Ideas of RefteSlion — Every 

 individual Perception of the Operation of our Mind, is, according to Mr. Locke, ^a 

 Idea — Tliis not true — There muft be the Knowledge of the Nature of the Operation — 

 This cannot be without the Knowledge of the jigent — This Knowledge c&n only be de- 

 rived from Mind — The only Q^ieftion remaining is. Whether our Mind creates its 

 Jfleas — This cannot be conceived — Ideas cannot be difcovercd in the Objects in which 

 they are inherent, unlefs they be previoufly known — The Soul being a diftindl Sub- 

 Jlance, puts this Matter out of doubt — No Soul can be without Ideas — If it creates 

 Ideas, it creates it/elf— This impoflible— All our Ideas, as well as our Minds, are 

 from God — In his Mind the Ideas annot be abftra(Sled from Matter — This Origin of 

 our Ideas much nobler than that alTlgned by Mr. Locke — is the Confequcnce of our 

 being made after the Image of God — No innate Ideas in one Senfe — A previous State of 

 the Human Soul — The latent Ideas in us not called up by an A£l of the Mind, like 

 the Ideas we have already acquired. — That we have no Confcioufnefs of any Thing 

 in a State of pre-exiftence, no Proof that there was no fuch State — Mr, Locke's Error, 

 in confounding Confcioufnefs and Identity — The IntelleElual Part of us may be dormant 

 and quiefcent for fome time— This agreeable to the Analogy of Nature — Inflances of 

 fuch a State, both in the Vegetable and the Animal— O^x Intelltiluul Part fomctimes 

 quiefcent, even after we are grown up — Ideas even then lie dormant in our Minds for 

 Years. Page i86 



CHAP. III. 



Of the Difference of Minds — Great Errors proceed from not knowing accurately that 

 Difference— The Vegetable differs from the Elemental Life, as to the Lody moved— the 

 Motion — the Growth — and the Fi"al Caufe — Difference betwixt the At'imal and Vege~ 

 fable — The Animal fen/itive— the Vegetable not — Reafon for this Difference — The A.vi- 

 mul has a Feeling of Pleafure and Pain — the Vegetable not — This Difference betwixt the 

 Animal and Vegetable proved by Experiment — The Vegetable propagated many more 

 ways than the Animal — The Vegetable Life fubfervient to the Anival — Rc-naikible 

 Inftance of this in the ConJlruSiion of the Vegetable Part of Animals — The Vegetable di'iiA 

 Animal Life come very near one another. p. 205 



CHAP. IV. 



The Importance of the Doftrine of Caufe: — Ariflotk\ Account of Caufes, full and 

 complete — Plato's Addition of two other Caufes, not neceflary— Abufe of the Term, 

 Caufe— Things faid to be Caufes, which are only the Removal of Impediments that 

 •hinder the real Caufe to operate — The Power of the Mind without the Organs of 

 Senfe, evident in Dreaming zni Night-walking, or when the Bot^ is affefted by certain 



[A] 2 Difeafes 



