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Tluit there is fomething^ within us, which perceives objeds of 

 Scnfe, without the afliilance of the Organs of Senfe, is a fad of daily- 

 experience, of which no man can doubt. 



This facuky of the Mind is called Phantafui, or, in common lan- 

 guage, Lnaginatmi, and is very properly divided by Philoponus, as 

 I have obferved *, into retentive and acliue ; the firfl: retaining the 

 objedts which we have received from the Senfes, the other calling 

 them up, and prefenting them to the Mind, upon particular occa- 

 fions, and combining them together in various forms. And in this 

 refped the Phantafia refembles Intelled ; for the Intelled not only 

 forms and retains Ideas, but calls them up to the Mind, and ope- 

 rates upon them in various ways. 



2do, That this power of perception belongs to mere Matter or 

 Body, is what no man will maintain who is not a downright Mate- 

 rialift ; for, if Matter can perceive, it may ihiiik, rea/oti, refecl, and, 

 in (hort, perform every operation that we afcribe to Mind, and there 

 will be no dillindion betwixt Body and Mind. I therefore do not 

 approve of a manner of fpeaking which the Material Philofophy has 

 introduced, as if a part of the Body, which they call a Senforium, 

 and which I believe they place in the brain, was that which percei- 

 ved objeds of Senfe, retained them, and operated upon them : For 

 we ought never to forget that faying of antient philofophy, that it is 

 Mind only which fees, hears, or perceives, by any of the other Senfes ; 

 nor that diftindion above mentioned tj made by Plato, betwixt the 

 caufe of a thing, and that without which the caufe cannot operate. 

 For there are certain organs of the Body, both internal and external, 

 without which the Mind, inclofed as it is in Body, cannot operate ; 



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