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weaker Senfatlons, or, unlefs we confound Senfadons and Ideas, as 

 Mr Locke does, we muft allow that Intellea:, as to the objed of its 

 knowledge, Is perfedly different from Senle. 



But I go farther, and I fay that, not only Intelled does alone 

 perceive the internal forms or ideas of things, but that it cannot, by 

 its nature, perceive the external or corporeal forms of things, thefe 

 being perceived only by the Senfes, which arc moved and affeded by 

 them. This may appear a very extraordinary pofition to many of 

 my readers, Wxho will be furprifed to hear that, by Intelled, that fu- 

 perior faculty of our Mind, we cannot apprehend any corporeal 

 thing. But, if we attend diligently to what pafles within us, we 

 ihall find that it is only by the Senfes that we perceive the bodily 

 qualities of any thing, and that all, our Intelled perceives concerning 

 it, is, that it belongs to a certain genus or fpecies of things. This 

 cannot pofTibly be perceived by the Senfe, which can only appre- 

 hend the external form ; and this being reported by the Senfe to the 

 Intelled, from thence the Intellect infers the Idea or Internal Form, 

 which, as I have faid, is only known by its relation to other forms 

 of the fame kind ; the Intellea apprehending nothing but as part of 

 fome fyftera, fuch as a Genus or Species is. It is therefore true, 

 what I have elfewhere obferved, that we cannot, with philofophical 

 exadnefs and propriety, fay that we fee a man or a horfe ; for the 

 truth is, that wey2^^ only a certain mafs of matter, coloured and flia- 

 ped in a certain way ; but it is by our Intelle(5t that we perceive it to 

 be a man or a horfe. 



Thus, it appears that Intellect is as incapable of perceiving the 

 objedts of Senfe, as Senfe is of perceiving the objeds of intelled ; 

 and, therefore, that the objeds of thefe two gnoftic faculties are per- 

 fedly diftind from one another, and confequently the gnoftic fa- 

 culties themfelves. 



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