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that a man has a good fancy, but a bad judgment ; and, when a 

 man has no judgment at all, but gives implicit alTcnt to his Phan- 

 tafms, without queftioning their reality, we fay the man is mad, as I 

 have already obferved *. ' 



As, therefore, the Phantafia does not belong to mere Matter, nor 

 to the Vegetable, or even the Intelle£lual Mind, it muft neceffaiily 

 belong to the Animal Mind ; for, befidcs.thefe three, and the Ele- 

 mental Life, as I call it, which animates all Phyfical Bodies, there 

 is nothing elfe in our Microfcofm, nor, as far as we can conceive, 

 in the great world, or Univerfe. Accordingly, the better fort of Brutes 

 have a Phantafia, as well as wc, without which it were impoffible 

 that they could perform the fundlions of an Animal Oeconomy of 

 any variety ; and their Phantafia operates, 'not only while they arc 

 awake, but alfo in Dreams, when they are afleep. 



Now, this Animal Life, to which the Phantafia belongs, is, as I 

 Jiave Ihown, a Mind altogether diilind, not only from the Vege- 

 table, but the IntelleiSlual Mind, being a Subftance by itfclf in us, 

 as much as it is in the Brute. We are not, therefore, to confider it 

 as a faculty only of our Intelledlual Mind, as many do, and which 

 has produced much confufion among Philofophical Reafoners, but 

 as a Subftance altogether difierent, incorporeal, as well as the Intel- 

 lectual Mind, though of a nature far inferior. 



But there is no neceflity to fplit the Animal Nature into two or 

 three parts, fuppofing that there is one that perceives external ob- 

 je£ls, another that retains thofe perceptions, and a third that operates 

 upon them. And, particularly, it would be altogether abfurd, to 

 fuppofe that there is a Mind that only retains the images of fenfible 

 objeds, but does not operate upon them : For Adion is of the very 

 effence of Mind 5 nor can we conceive Mind, without a power of 



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