OF BODIES. Owp.XXXII. 



ments,nor di cover any fignes, whereby we may be induced to 

 believe or underftand any fuch operation. 



It may be urged, that divers founds a re by dileafes often- 

 times made in our eares, and appearances of colours in our fan- 

 tafie. Butfirft, thefe colours and founds, arenotartificiall 

 ones,and difpofed and ordered by choice and judgement; for no 

 flory hath mentioned, that by a difeafe any man ever heard 

 twenty verfes of Virgill,or an ode of Horace in his cares : or 

 that ever any man faw faire pictures in his fanfy, by meanes of a 

 blow given him upon his eye. And fecondly, fuch colours and 

 founds as are objected, are nothing elfe, but (in the fir ft cafe) 

 the motion of humours in a mans eye by a blow upon it , which 

 humours hive the vcrtuc of making Jight, in fuch fort as we fee 

 Sea-water hath, when it is dafhed together : and ( in the fe- 

 cond cafe) a cold vapour in certaine parts of the braine, which 

 caufeth beatings or motion there ; whence proceedeth the imi- 

 tation of founds :fb that thefe examples do nothing advantage 

 that party thence to .infer that the fimilkudes of obje&j may 

 be made in the common fenfc, without any real! bodies referred 

 for that end. 



Yet I intend not to exclude motion from any commerce 

 with, die memory no more then I have done from fenfation. 

 For I will not only grant, that all our remembring it perform- 

 ed by the meanes of motion ; but I will alfb acknowledge, that 

 (in men) icis, for the moftpart.of nothing elfe but of mori- 

 on.Fcr what are words, but motion? And words arc the chicfeft 

 objects of our remembrance. It is true, we can, if we will, re 

 member things m their owne fhapes , as well as by the words 

 that exprcfTe them ; but experience telleth us, that in our fami- 

 liar converfation, and in the ordinary exercifeof our memory, 

 we remember and make ufe of the words, rather then of the 

 things themfelves. 



Befides , the impreflions which are made upon all our other 

 ienfes, as well as upon our hearing, are likewiie for the mofi 

 part of things in motion ; as if we have occafion to make a con- 

 ception of a man, or of a horfe., we ordinarily conceive him 

 Walking, or Speaking,or Eating^or ufing fbmemotion in time; 

 and as thefe impreflions are fucceffively made upon the outward 

 Organesj fo are they fuccefllyely carried into the fantafze., aad 



