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culty of comparing his fenfations* : And he adds, what diftinguiOies 

 him from other animals of this earth, even in his natural ftate, 

 " That he has the capacity of intelledt and fcience," which I think, 

 as I have faid elfewhere, is fo compleat a definition of man in his 

 natural ftate, that I have made it tht foundation of my whole phi- 

 lofophy of manf ; and in the courle of this work I have endeavour- 

 ed to explain how this wonderful change was made from a brute of 

 the better kind to an animal of intelle^ll and fcience, not in capacity 

 only but in a£luality. As this change muft appear to the philofo- 

 pher one of the moft wonderful things in this earth, I will here fay 

 fomething more upon the fubjcd:. 



I will begin with the firft exercife of our intellect, which muft be 

 upon objeds of fenfe ; for, as our fenfes are the firft inlets of all 

 our knowledge in this ftate of our exiftence, our intelledt muft be- 

 gin with confidering the obje£ts which they prefent to us : And 

 thefe muft be confidered at firft each feparately, and io a particular 

 idea formed of them ; for I think I have fhown, that we can have 

 no general ideas without having firft ideas of particular things if ; 

 and indeed it appears to me a thing inconceivable, that we can. 

 form any general idea without having particular ideas of which the 

 general \Aq.3i. confifts; though Mr Locke has made no fuch dlftindlion. 

 Now we can form no idea of any particular objedt of fenfe, except 

 by confidering the fevcral qualities, which our fenfes perceive in the 

 objedt. Thefe the brute perceives as well as we ; and it is in that 

 way that he knows the objedt co be the fame that he had perceived 

 before, or different, but he perceives them altogether, and as it 

 were in a lump without making any diftindion betwixt the feveral 

 qualities: Whereas man firft analyfes them, then puts them toge- 



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 f P. 144 of this Vol. 

 i Vol. V, p. 168. 



