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illumination and variegation, of flavor and of 

 odor, of hot and of cold. Mr. LOCKE,* there- 

 fore, makes a very just distinction between the 

 properties which essentially belong to different 

 bodies, and between those which exist in our 

 own perceptions : " while the bulk, number, 

 figure, and motion of the parts of fire or snow 

 are really in them, whether our own senses 

 perceive them or not, and, therefore, may be 

 called real qualities, because they really exist 

 in those bodies. But light, heat, whiteness, or 

 coldness, are no more really in them, than sick- 

 ness or pain is in manna. Take away the sen- 

 sation of them ; let not the eyes see light, or 

 color, nor the ears hear sounds ; let the palate 

 not taste, nor the nose smell; and all colors, 

 tastes, odors, and sounds, as they are particular 

 ideas, vanish and cease, and are reduced to 

 their causes, i, e. bulk, figure, and motion of 

 parts." 



While each individual organ can only obtain 

 a partial knowledge of any subject ; the eye, of 

 color, the touch of resistance, the nose of flavor, 

 and the tongue of taste; the mind on the con- 

 trary, which subsists not like the organs in 

 parts, but as a whole total and universal, re- 



* Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, ch. 

 p. 100. 



