344 APPENDIX. Chap. III. 



Before I have done with the objeds of perception of the Intellect, 

 there is one objed: of its perception particularly to be obferved, as 

 diftinguiihing it effentially from Senfe. The objedt I mean Is itfelf ; 

 for, as Plato tells us, the eye of the Intelled: perceives itfelf, whereas 

 the eye of the Body fees only external objedts, but not itfelf. This 

 is that prime faculty of the human foul, which we call Confclouf- 

 ncfs. This, Mr Locke, and the French philofophers, have made to 

 be efTential to all perceptions of every kind * ; thereby plainly fhow- 

 ing that they are unable to diftinguilli betwixt Intelledl and Senfa- 

 tlon, and confequently betwixt Man and Brute ; for it is the great 

 privilege of the Intelledual Nature, that it can recognize itfelf, that is, 

 can make Itfelf its ownobjedl. By this prime faculty, we are enabled, 

 not only to contemplate our own Minds, but higher Minds, even 

 the higheft of all ; for, as I have more than once obferved in the 

 courfe of this work, it is only by ftudying our own Minds that we 

 can attain to the knowledge of fuperlor Minds f . 



Thus, it appears to be true, what I have all along maintained 

 through this whole work, that we know nothing except by Ideas, 

 which are apprehended by the Intelled, and by the Intelled only : 

 And thefe Ideas are Subftances immaterial. The Licas^ therefore, of 

 Timaeus the Pythagorean, mentioned in the pafTage above quoted, 

 and which he makes the proper objed of Intelled, are the very 

 fame with thofe eternal and unchangeable things of which Plato 

 fpeaks X : And Plato is in the right when he fays, as he does 



in 

 * See Origin and Progrefs of Language, Vol. i. p. 155. fecond edition, 

 f Vol. i. p. 224. The reader, if he deiircs to know more of the Nature of the 

 Human Soul, and the difference betwixt it and the Animal Nature, may confult 

 the Author above quoted, (p. 330. 331.) Plotinus, ( Ennead. 5. /;/'. 3. etfeq.)^ where 

 he will find explained that Philofophy which Plato kept a myftery during his life, 

 but which was revealed by the later Platonifts, particularly Plotinus, as Porphyry, 

 his fcholar, informs us in his Treatife de Abjl'meutlci , lib. 6. rap. 36. 

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