i3 CLASSES OF IDEAS. SECT. JCV. t. 



horfe fafer than on a camel," my abftract idea of 

 the two animals includes only an outline of the 

 level back of the one, and the gibbofity on the 

 back of the other. What noife is that in the 

 ftreet ? Some horfes. trotting over the pavement. 

 Here my idea of the horfes includes principally 

 the fhape and motion of their legs. So alfo 

 the abftract ideas of goodnefs and courage are 

 Hill more imperfect reprefentations of the ob- 

 jects they were received from 5 for here we ab- 

 ilract the material parts, and recollect only the 

 qualities. 



Thus we abflract fo much from fome of our* 

 complex ideas, that at length it becomes difficult 

 to determine of what perception they partake ; 

 and in many inftances out idea feems to be no other 

 than of the found or letters of the word, that 

 Hands for the colle&ive tribe, of which we are 

 faid to have an abftra&ed idea, as noun, verb, chi- 

 inaera, apparition* 



6. Ideas have been divided into thofe of percep- 

 tion and thofe of reflection, but as whatever is 

 perceived muft be external to the organ that 

 perceives it, all our ideas muft originally be ideas 

 of perception. 



7. Others have divided our ideas into thofe of 

 memory, and thofe of imagination ; they have 

 faid that a recollection of ideas in the order they 

 were received conftitutes memory, and without that 

 order imagination ; but all the ideas of imagina- 

 tion, excepting the few that are termed -fimple 

 ideas, are parts of trains or tribes in the order 

 they were received ; as if I think of a fphinx, 

 or a griffin, the fair face, bofom, wings, claws, 

 tail, are all complex ideas in the order they were 

 received : and it behoves the writers, who ad- 



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