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pacities, — Wonderful how the hifinlty of things can he arranged 

 and made the objeSl of our contemplation ; — done by ahf ration and 

 gencralliTiation.'—Mr Locke ignorant of the nature of Ideas:— He con^ 

 founds them with Seifations : — Gives them to Children in the womb : 

 — Makes our feelings of Pleafure and Pain Ideas^— -and accounts for 

 ftnging birds retaining the tunes they have learned^ by their haviTtg 

 the Ideas of them in their memories. — Mr Locke's error in not dif- 

 tinguifhing a Senfation from an Idea, — He confounds Action and 

 Paf/ion^ and the Intellectual nmth the A?iijnal Life: — Ignorant even 

 of the nature of Senfations ; — did not know that^ with refpe£i to 

 them^ the Mind is pafTive, and with refpedi to Ideas adlive. — Caufe 

 of Mr Lockers error ^ his not diflinguifhitig betwixt the materials of 

 which Ideas are formed^ and Ideas themfelves, — Recapitulation of 

 the imperfeBions of Mr Locke'' s Effay; — neverthelcfs taught infome 

 of our Univerfities as a complete fyftem of Logic ^ while AriflotW s 

 Logic is negledled. — Of our Phantafia', — a faculty of great ufe in 

 forming Ideas; — different from Memory: — // is the Cufodier of our 

 ^ Set fat ions ;— -Memory the repofitory of Ideas. — Difference betwixt 

 Man and Brute with refpedi to the Ph an tafia. — Our Ideas of Mind, 

 'and of its different kinds ^ formed in the fame way that wefor?n 

 Particular and General Ideas of objects of Scn/e. — This elfewhere 

 explained. — The manner how Particular Ideas are contained in ge- 

 neral: — It JJjows the relation betwixt the Praedicate and the SubjeSf 

 <f Propofttions.^Of the ufe of a good Logic, which fldows us the pro- 

 grefs of our Ideas from the mofl fimple Ideas of objedls of Senfe to 

 the mof general Ideas of any, and which are faid to be Things ex-. 

 Ifting ; as they contain all other things, and are contained in the 

 Supreme mind. — Thus a good Logic conduds us to Theology. 



IN the preceding chapter I have fhown what Arillotle has done to 

 explain the difcuriiVe faculty of the mind, which the Greeks 

 call Aijcrsta, and the commentators upon Ariftotle, Nc;j<r/$ />cgTa/3ct- 



