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CHAP. XV. 



Ohfervations on the difference betwixt Man and other Ammah.^^InteU 

 Ugence^ which is peculiar to Man^ the caufe of that difference. — • 

 Brutes and other Animals only fen fitive, Mr Locke ^ by confounding 

 Senfations with Ideas, has confoujided Incelligence with Senfe, and 

 con/equently given Ideas or Knowledge to all Animals.' — That the 

 Brute has a comparative faculty .^ admitted by Ariflotle, • - He compares 

 not only Senfations., but the images of fenfthU objeBs in his Phanta^ 



fta. — If., therefore., Senfations be the fame with Ideas, he poffejjes 

 the Difcurfive Faculty, forms Propofititions^ and is an IntcllcSlual 

 Creature : — If fuch., his IntelleB mufl be much fuperior to ours ;— 

 his economy agreeable to nature — does every thing for the prtfcrva^ 

 tion of the hidividual and continuation of the Species: — luflances of 

 this in the Bee. and Ant, — The Brute is dire6ied by Intelligence, but 

 does not a£l with Intelligence. — Confequence of the contrary fuppo^ 



Jition. — If the Brute has not Ideas., he cannot have the Dilcurlivc 

 Faculty, — forms no opinion of Good or HI, — and has not confci'- 

 oufnefs or refledlion. — The Divine Intelligence directs the Brute,-^ 

 The Author'' s opinion in this matter., not to be confounded with 

 thofe Philofophers who make Brutes Machines. — The Animal mi nd^ 

 in the Brute., dire&ed by Divine Pl^ifdom. — That dire6lion called In- 

 llindt. — Inftindi in Man alfo. — Infances oj this. 



HAVING faid To much of the nature of man in this and the 

 preceding volume, I will conclude this book with fomc oh- 

 fervations upon the difference betwixt him and the brute, by which 



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