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If then fcnfe cannot determine any one part, how (hill it fee 

 that it is diftinguifhcd from all other parts? Again; considering 

 that all that whereof Ten fe is capable is divisible, it {fill telJeth 

 us, that in all it fceth, there are more pares then one: and there- 

 fore it cannot difcern, nor inform us of any that is one alone: 

 nor knoweth what it is to be one ; for it never c ould difcem 

 it : but what is many, is many ones and cannot be known, by 

 that, which knoweth not, what it is to be one: and confcquent- 

 ly fenfc cannot tell us, that there arc many. Wherefore it is 

 evident, that we may not rely upon fcnfc for this qucftion. 

 And as for reafon, (he hath already given her verdiiir. 



So that nothing remaineth but to fhcw, why we talk as we 

 do, in ordinary ditcourfc, of many parts : and that what we 

 fay in that kind, is true,notwithrtandmg che unity of the thing. 

 Wliich will appear plainly, ifweconfider that our underftand- 

 ing hath a cuftome for the better difcerning of things, to im- 

 pofe upon a thing as it is under one notion, the exclufion of it 

 ielf as it is under other notions. And this is evident unto all 

 fchollars, when the mark of exclufion is cxpreffcly put: as 

 when they fpeakof a white thing, addiwg the reduplication, AS 

 it is white : which excludcth all other confederations of that 

 thing befidcs the whitencfle of it : but when it cometh under 

 fbme particular name of the thing, it may deceive thofethac are 

 not cunningrthough indeed, moft men difcovcr it in fuch names 

 as \ve call abftraacd as humanity, animalky, and the like. 

 But it cafily deceiveth when it cometh in concrete names ; as it 

 doth in the name of Part in generall, or in the names of parti- 

 cular parts ; as a hand, an eye, an inch, an elle, and others or* 

 the like nature : for as you fee that a part excludeth both the 

 notion of the whole, and of the remaining parts; (b doth a 

 hand, arreye, an elle, exclude all the reft of that thing, where- 

 of the hand is a hand, and the elle is an elle. and fo forth. Now 

 then, a? every man feeth evidently that ic cm not be laid, the 

 wall as it is whiteis platter or fto.ie : no more emit be Cud, 

 that the hand of a mm is his foot ; becatiie the word hand fi- 

 gmfieth as much in it fclf, as if the irnn were taken by rcdu- 

 plicanon, to be the man as he is hand or as he hath the power 

 ofholding. So likewife, in the rod we 'p^ke of before: itcannot 

 be laid that the part fccn is the part unicen j becauie the part 



B feen, 



