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of the feveral things to one another, together with the union of the 

 whole in a fyftem. For this purpofe it has pleafed God to beftow 

 upon man a faculty, which apprehends things only as they are con- 

 nected with other things. For Heaven has given us two faculties of 

 perception ; the one, by which we perceive fingle things exifting 

 by themfelves, without relation to any other thing, in the fame 

 manner as the brutes perceive things,' and that is our fenfes ; the 

 other is a much higher faculty, fo high, that we may be faid by it 

 to participate of Divinity, and accordingly are faid to be made after 

 the image of God, or, as the Latins exprefs it, to have in us Divinae 

 partictila aurae. by this laft faculty we do not perceive things 

 fingly and by themfelves, as we do by our fenfes, but all in relation 

 or connexion with other things ; and fuch is the connexion as 

 to make a "whole, or one^ of feveral things. In this way we per- 

 ceive things fo conne£led together as to make one genus or one fpe- 

 ctes : And even individuals we perceive in the fame way; for we 

 perceive in them a relation of their parts, and that thofe qualities, 

 which conftitute their nature, are fo connected as to make one fub- 

 ilance of the whole. In this v.-ay therefore we perceive the one in 

 gcnufes, fpeciefes, and individuals ; and, as every thing in nature is 

 genus, fpecies, or individual, by this faculty of intelledt we per- 

 ceive the one in the matiy in all things exifting which fall under our 

 obfervation *. And this is what makes truth or fcience ; for, as our 

 ideas are the foundation of all our fcience, we perceive the one in fe- 

 veral things, without which perception we could not be fiid to have 

 the idea of any thing; becaufe, if we did not perceive that the feveral 

 things, which form the idea, were fo connedled together as to make 

 one thing, the idea even of a particular obje<5t could not exift. Even 

 in particular fubjects therefore we find the one in the many, which, as 

 1 have faid, is effential to truth and fcience : For the intcllcd., in con- 

 VoL. VI. X X fidering 



* See what I have further faid upon the tlilTerencs betwixt the perceptions of fcnfe 

 and thofe of intellect, in p. 198 of this Vol. 



