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White— fuc/j as the Perception of Tonch—alfo the Perception of a 

 particular ¥\^\.\rc.—Of the Idea of Figure in general— of ExtcnCion 

 — o/" Motion. — 7I2 have an Idea, even of a particular Thing, is 

 to perceive the one in the many. — A greater one perceived /« gene- 

 ral Ideas. — Thefe i/iufi be abftraded in order to be per fed. — The Di- 

 flribution 0/ Things z«/o Genus rt«^ Species not artifcial, but found- 

 ed in Nature. — 5o//j Uniformity ^?zi Variety, n.fc^//:)' for a Syftem. 

 — The "wonderful Variety and Uniforviity in the Syjlem r/Nature. — 

 Of our Idea o/'Mind. — This Idea acquired by Confcioufnefs. — 0/' 

 the Nature of Confcioufnefs. — // difiinguifloes us from the Brute 

 more than any thing elfe — is the highcfl Faculty belonging to the 

 human Mind — is the Foundation of all Certainty ahJ Knowledge. 

 — No Reafoning without Confcioufnefs. — From Confcioufnefs ivc 

 have thefrfl Idea of Mind. — Progrefs in that Idea from the Mind 

 that only moves, to the Supreme Intelledlual Mind. — 0/" the Final 

 Caufe. — Of the Difference of our Perceptions and thofe of the Brute. 

 Man dejlined by Nature for Purpofes quite different. — The Progrefs 

 of his WmAfrom lefler to greater ones, //'// he arrive at the great- 

 eft One in the Univerfe. 



HAVE fiid a great de:il, in the Firft Volume, upon the dif- 

 ference betwixt Man and Brute : But fo little is the philofophy 

 of Mind, which alone can enable us to make that diftincftion, ftudied 

 at prefent, that many believe Man to be no more than a better fort 

 of Brute, and that the difference is only in degree, not in kind. I will 

 once more, therefore, endeavour to make this matter clear, which I am 

 perfuaded can only be done by the help of antient philofophy: If 

 fo, I would have thofe confider, who philofophife without that help, 

 how poor a philofopher a man muft be, who cannot diftinguifli him- 

 felf from a Brute. There is alfo another diftindlion, which the 

 antient philofophy will enable us to make, a diftindion of ftill higher 



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