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think it is not without reafon that the Bifhop of Worcefter, in the 

 treatife above mentioned *, accufes h'ltn of confounding Men's 

 apprehenfions with his new Terms, fuch as Complex and Abftraci 

 Ideas, and Specific Navies ; to which, I think, he might have added. 

 Modes, and Mixed Modes. — In fhort, I cannot help faying, though 

 I fliould give offence, that the philofophy of Mr Locke is, under the 

 appearance of a new philofophy, nothing but the antient, much 

 mangled and deformed, and expreffed in a barbarous jargon. From 

 this barbarity, Mr Harris has the merit of having firft refcued Philo- 

 fophy : And I defpair not to live to fee both the dodrines and the 

 language of antient philofophy reftored. 



I have infifted fo much upon the errors and defeats of Mr Locke's 

 philofophy, for two reafons : frji. To clear the way for Plato's doc- 

 trine of Ideas, which I am to deliver in the next chapter, by remo- 

 ving thofe objedions to it, which will naturally arife in the Mind of 

 every one who has ftudied Mr Locke's book upon human under- 

 flanding ; and, idly, To ftiow how infuflicient the beft natural parts 

 are, unafTifled by antient learning, in the ftudy of philofophy; for 

 Mr Locke was undoubtedly a man of excellent natural parts, very- 

 much fuperior, in that refpeA, to Mr David Hume, or to any that 

 has philofophifed without the affiftance of the Antients fmce his 

 time. And his llyle is as good as, I think, that of any man can be, 

 who is not a Scholar and has not formed his Tafte upon the befl: 

 models of antiquity ; without which it is as impoflible to write well, 

 as to excell in the arts of Sculpture and Painting, without ftudying the 

 antient monuments of that kind. 



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