120 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS, Book IIL 



intelledual. The organs by which our anunal nature perceives the 

 external objects, and has what we call fenfations, are our fenfes. 

 By thefe we perceive only fmgle things, each fenfe its own particu- 

 lar obje£l; whereas the intelled: perceives nothing but in connedion 

 with fome other thing. For though it be commonly faid that we 

 fie a j?ia?2f yet the fnO: is, that w^e only perceive, by our fenfe of 

 fight, an animal of a certain figure and fize ; but it is the intelkd: 

 v/hich, by perceiving the union of the fcveral members of his com- 

 pofition, and comparing them with thofe of other animals, pronoun- 

 ces that he is a man, wuth refpedl to his outward fonn ; and if he 

 difcovers, or fuppofes, that he has the ufe or capacity of intellect, 

 then he has the compleat idea of a man. For every idea, as I have 

 obferved feveral times in the courfe of this work, isa fyftem, greater 

 or Icfs, by which feveral things are connected together, fo as to 

 make only one thing, which we call an idea ; and, as it is only the 

 intellect which perceives things in that way, it is only the intclled 

 which forms ideas. 



But though we do not perceive Beauty by our fenfes, yet there 

 are two fenfes whereby we perceive beautiful objeds ; I mean the 

 fenfes of feeing and hearing. But though by thefe we perceive vir 

 fible and audible objeds in w^hich there is Beauty, yet it is not by 

 thefe fenfes that we perceive the beauty of fuch objeds, but by our 

 intcllcd. 



Thefe general principles being laid down, let us now confider 

 what the idea of Beauty is,— and it is, I fay, a perception, which the 

 intclled, and the intelled only, has of a certain union and con- 

 gruity of feveral things, which makes them in fome fenfe ouc, or in 

 otlier words a fjjl'^m. And this we perceive, not oaly in different 

 objeds, but in the fame objed if it confift of parts. A fmgle ani- 

 mal for example, which, confifting of many different parts, materi- 

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