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not unlike that of tlic ComtefTe, is a very old man ; for the diflblu- 

 tion of his Mind and Body being then near at hand, he lecollciits 

 what he tuid known in his youth, but had abfolutely forgotten for 

 many years. And there is a gentleman flill living, concerning whom 

 I have had occafion to be well informed, who, in his youth, loll his 

 judgment by a blow on his head, and has ever fince been in a ftate 

 of idiotry, not remembering or giving any attention to what happens 

 every day ; but he remembers very pcrfcdlly every thing that paifed 

 before that accident, fmce which, his Mind may be confidered as in a 

 ftate of feparation from the Body, and as in another life, remem- 

 bering every thing that pafled before that feparation. 



Thefe are my notions of the Mind's power of perception, either 

 when it is entirely feparated from the Body, or in part by fleep or 

 difeafe. But, when we are awake, and found in Body, I admit 

 that we cannot perceive Objedls of Senfe without the ufe of the 

 Organs of Senfe, which, therefore, are then of the nature of thofe 

 things mentioned by Plato, that are not Caufes, but without which 

 the Caufe cannot operate. 



Of this kind, I hold not only the External Organs to be, but alfo 

 f, the Internal Organs, fuch as the Brain or Heart, which are not Cau- 

 fes of the operations of Mind, but only things without which the 

 Mind could not operate. 



What I have faid here, the Reader will obferve, applies only to 

 the Animal Mind, which alone perceives the objects of Senfe ; for,, 

 as to the Intelledual Mind, whofe Objeds are o£ a quite different 

 kind, I hold that it has no immediate connexion with any Organs, 

 External or Internal, but only mediately, by its connection with the 

 Animal Life, which is fo neceflary to it in this ftate of its exiftence, 

 that it cannot ad without it. 



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