Chap. Xr. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 167 



CHAP. XT. 



Progrefs of Men from the invention of Lnn^jtage to Tdeis, flrfi Par- 

 ticular then General. — Ipmrance of Mr Locke in this m.itier. — 1 

 AH our Ideas arif from our deviations — Diflinct'inm to be made 

 for knowing accurately the nati.re of them, but which Mr L'.cke 

 has not nude. — Confujion of his ' cuvji.-ge on the p/bjecf of l-.le is of 

 Senfation • — What thefe truly are. — ^Ideas of Kefltctioii nut Juff-- 

 ciently explained by him. 



AFTER Civil Society was conftituted, and Lang;uig:e invented, 

 by which a clofs communication of men witJi one anor ler 

 was (.arried on, they v^'ould Itarn to form ideas ; for it is by ideas 

 that we diftingui(h things from one another. Uur hrft i(]eas muft 

 have been of particular or individual things, with which all our 

 knowledge in this life, as 1 have laid, begins; nor, without miking 

 this diftindion of individual things by the means of ideas, could 

 the common bufinefs of the civilifed life be carried on. 



How thefe particular ideas are formed, I have explained in Vol. 

 V. of this work*, where I have fhown that we mull feparate a qua- 

 lity, one or more, which is predominant in the objedt and peculiar 

 to it, from other qualities that are acciden al and common to it 

 with other objeds. in this way, as I have (hon n in the paflage I 

 have quoted, we diftinguilh one animal irom another j and in the 



fame 



Vol. V. p. 168. 



