106 SENSATION AND ITS OBJECTS. . 



ceives the impressions wholly and totally, and 

 contemplates altogether, and at once, the various 

 attributes of the body, a perception of which 

 the organs of sense had separately obtained. 

 While the organs of sense, therefore, distinguish 

 the particular attributes of a body, the mind, on 

 the contrary, receives and conceives these per* 

 ceptions, universally ; things partible it views 

 impartibly; things divisible, indivisibly; things 

 temporal, eternally.* 



Although the organs of sense are the avenues 

 through which impressions from external ob- 

 jects are first made, it is from the native vigor 

 and power of the mind, that ideas are made to 

 flow ; while the spark comes from without, the 

 flame resides within ; although it is set in mo- 

 tion by external means, it is from the power of 

 mind alone, by which those ideas and motions 

 ought to be directed. 



Hoping that I have succeeded in showing 

 that sensation does not abide in the external 

 substance, but in the sentient principle alone, 



* While the different attributes which the organs of sens* 

 perceive, constitute the true sources, whence definition ought 

 to be derived ; nomenclature, on the contrary, is made from 

 the congregation into one point, of all the attributes together. 

 The definition of silver or of gold, is not confined to its color 

 only, hot to its color and density ; its diagnosis from other 

 bodies consists in its malleability and relative weight, &c. 



