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tions, and not to confound them, as Mr Locke has done. What I liave 

 faid here, and clfewhere, I hope will enable every man of common 

 fenfe to make the diftindion, and to perceive, not only that the ope- 

 ration of the mind, by v*-hich Vv^e form ideas, is perfeftly different 

 from the perceptions of fcafe; but that the objeds are quite diffe- 

 rent ; for the intcllcd, by which we form our ideas, perceives no- 

 thing but in fyflem ; whereas the fenfe perceives nothing in that 

 way, but only corporeal objeds, not analyfed, as they are by the in- 

 telled, but altogether in a lump with their feveral qualities*. 



» 

 It may be farther obferved, that as there can be no fyftem, but of 

 things which have a connedion and relation to one another, in 

 forming the feveral fyftems of our ideas \\s perceive all the con- 

 nedions and relations that can be imagined betwixt things : For we 

 perceive the genus, the fpecics, the difference, what is proper or 

 peculiar, and what is accidental, in things ; and thefe comprehend all 

 the feveral relations of conformity or diverfity, in which the things 

 of this univerfe (land to one another. Thefe are the /ve zvordsj 

 which Porphyry, and his commentator Ammonius Hermeias, 

 have fo well explained. The work is very properly entitled, by 

 Philoponus, zic-uyt:yii, or IntroduSliotiy and indeed it is the beft intro- 

 dudion to philofophy that ever v/as written \\ 



And this fuperior faculty of our minds, by which we perceive 

 things in fyftem, and in fyftem only, and by which we proceed 

 from lefTer to greater fyftems, fhould convince us, that we are not 



deftined, 



• See what I have faid upon this fubje^V, in vol. III. of this work, p. 342, anfl 

 following, where ! have fhcwn that intelleft is as incapable of perceiving the objefts 

 of fenfe, as fenfe is of perceiving the objects of intellect. 



j See what I have farther faid of this valuable work, in vol, V, of Origin of 

 Language, p. 413. 



