APPENDIX. 



tain the fubjedl, makes one of both praedicate and fubjedl ; and ;;.. 

 fame is the cafe whether the propofition be fel^-evidcnt or demon- 

 ftrated. In the fyllogifm, by which the propofition is deiiionftruted 

 we make a greater one ; for of the two firil propofitions we make 

 one in the Conclufion. The one therefore in the ma?iy is what makes 

 all fcience : And it is likcwife the foundation ot our idtas, from 

 which all fcience is derived ; for every idea makes cne^ as I have faid, 

 of the feveral things which compofe it. 



This connection of things with one another, by which every 

 thing, even an individual thing, is owe of feveral things, is fo uni- 

 verfal in nature, that our intelledl can form no idea, but of things 

 fo conneded. We cannot form what can be called an idea cf any 

 thing on this earth, without referring it to fome genus or fpecies : 

 We cannot, for example, form what can be called an idea oi man or 

 of any other animal^ without referring it to the genus animal^ or fomc 

 /pedes of that genus ; for if we cannot do that, we have only a per- 

 ception of the particular animal, fuch as the brute has, that is, we per- 

 ceive certain qualities in the animal which diftinguifh it from other 

 animals ; and this the brute does as well as we ; but unlefs we can 

 refer it to fome genus or fpecies, we have no idea of it. Our ideas 

 therefore are fo neceflarily connetSled with other things with which the 

 idea has a connedion, that we can form no idea without confider- 

 ing that connexion, and fo perceiving that the objedt of the idea is 

 one of many : Nor can we otherwife form an idea of the firft p;rfon 

 of the Trinity, from whom all things in the univerfe proceed, with- 

 out taking into our confideration the other two perfons of the Tri- 

 nity, with which he is neceflarily connedled, fo that he is neceflarily 

 one of three; and all the three are fo necclfarlly connetSted as to make 

 one Being*. And the reafon why we cannot form any idea other- 

 wife than by conceiving it as one of feveral things, is this, that our 

 intelligence, from which all our ideas proceed, perceives nothing 



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• See wliat I havi faid upon this fubjeft in p. 46 of this Vol. 



