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perceive every propofition in the fame manner as, we arc fure, Supe- 

 rior Intelligences apprehend them. 



And here we may fee, that, when we knoiv in this way, the Me- 

 mory is entirely ufelefs. In reafoning, we muft remember the pre- 

 mifes before we can infer the conclufion : But, when our Ideas are 

 all prefent to us, and when we perceive intuitively their connection, 

 we have no need of Memory or Recolle<ftion. 



2d0y As to the unceafing Energy of Mind in its feparate flate, it 

 will not at all appear incredible, if we confuler the wonderful acti- 

 vity of our Mind even in this life. While we are awake, we al- 

 ways think ; and, as there are but few people that do not dream, 

 even in our fleep our Phantafia at leafl:, if not our Intellect, is bufy: 

 For the Phantafia I hold to be a faculty of our Mind, quite diftinCt 

 from Intellect ; and I make the fame diftinCtion of the Phantafia, 

 that Philoponus docs in his commentary upon the 4th Chapter of 

 the 3d Book De Anhna. He there fays, that the Phantafia is cither 

 retentive only of the perceptions of Senfe, or it is operative and a 

 kind of Painter, joining together the forms of things, which it 

 has received from the S«ifes, often in a very flrange and fantafti- 

 cal manner. Of the firft kind is the Phantafia of the Brutes, 

 which appears only to retain and prefent to them, waking or fleeping, 

 the impreflions of fenfible objeCts, juft as it receives them from the 

 Senfes : Of the other kind is our Phantafia, which is exceedingly ac- 

 tive, both when we are awake and afleep. This Phantafia, if it is 

 by Nature fo happily conftituted as to put together its images 

 in the moft beautiful and graceful manner, makes what we call 

 Genius ; and, if it be cultivated and improved by ftudy and art, it 

 produces artifts of every kind, fuch as Poets, Painters, Muficians, 

 and Architects. — In the feparate ftate of the Soul, there can be no 

 Phantafia, any more than Senfes or Senfationj but the mind con- 

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