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but only receives the impreffion made upon its organs by the adion 

 of body upon thefe organs ; whereas tlie mtelledt is not paffive like 

 fenfe, but ads of iti'elf, and by what may indeed be properly called 

 a vis inftta^ though it may ad upon materiaiS furnithed by the fen- 

 fes, and does fo ad when it diicovers the ideas of pur icular thino-s 

 or the ideas of the lowefl fpeciefes ; and it is in this {q\\{q that we 

 are to underftand Plato, when he fays that our intelledual mind is 

 avroxtvtjTog, or Je/f-moved'^, 



* See what I have faid further upon the difference betwixt fenfe and intellect, in p. 

 1 19. and following, of this vol. where I have maintained, what may appear a very ex- 

 traordinary paradox, " That we do not fee a man j" for this plain reafon, that by our 

 fenfe of fight we cannot difcover that he is of the fpecies of man ; for it is only by the 

 intellea, which perceives things as they are conne^ed with one another, that w<: can 

 have the idea oi fpecies or genus. 



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