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ties Comparifon, which may be of Senfations as well as Ideas ; but 

 it is only the Noi* or Intelledl, which the Brute has not, that cart 

 apprehend or compare Ideas. 



Thus, I think, I have fhown, that Man has knowledge much 

 fuperlor to that of the Brute, not only in degree but in kind. 

 What has led men to think otherwife, is, firft, the confufion of Sen- 

 fations and Ideas, which Mr Locke firft introduced, and Mr David 

 Hume has much improved upon ; and, fecondly, the wonderful o- 

 perations of the Brute, by which he preferves the individual, and 

 continues his race. But, if, becaufe the operations of the Brute are 

 fo artificial, we will therefore afcribe Intelleft to him, we muft alfo 

 give it to the Vegetable, whofe operations can certainly not be ac- 

 counted for by Matter and Mechanifm, any more than thofe of the 

 Animal Nature. And what fhall we fay of thofe moft furprifing 

 chryftalizations and configurations of falts which the microfcope ex- 

 hibits to us, fo various, and yet fo conftant and regular ? Muft we 

 fay the particles of fait have Intelled:, becaufe their operations are 

 fo various, and, at the fame time, fo conftant and' regular ? Or, if 

 no Body believes this. Why fhould we think that the Motions of 

 the Brute, not more various and furprifing, not more conftant or re- 

 gular, than the motions of the falts, (hould be the effed: of InteIle<Sl 

 in the Brute ? 



The truth, therefore, is, that, though all the operations of the 

 Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms, are diredted by Intel- 

 ligence, it is not Intelligence refiding in them, but that Supreme In- 

 telligence which. governs and direds every thing in the Univerfe : 

 Nor is there any thing refiding in them, but a Motive Principle, . 

 moving them in different ways, and^for different purpofes. 



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