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and adapts for every Senfe as *cwere a double Organ^ an inters 
nal and external ; and the fame matter perceiving withal, that 
'tis needlefs^ there fliould be an internal on@, appropriate for 
every external^ it torais one only internal^ Common to all the 
external, aod by proper nerves connects each external to it. 
And this to him conftitutes Senfation, which he faith is not per? 
formed without r^i^?^/^^//^^ the ad of Perception 5 fince, if a 
NervCj by whofe means Perception is redoubled, be any way 
intercepted, as in a Gutta ferenay or in a Paralitick Member5 
there is no Senfation. So that^ according to our AuthorsSen- 
fation is Perception enobled and exalted, able to judge of its 
objed) to refled upon it witli complacency, to fufpend its 
action, to avert it (elf from one objeft to another 5 whence 
Brutes themfelves are by him obferv'd to be in feme meafure 
capable of Difcipline, and of reward and punifbment. 
From all which it appears, that here is alTerted fuch a Na- 
tural perceptionj as is anterior toj more general.and moreffim- 
ple than that ofSen/e sin which perception^ accompanied with 
appetition and motioujour Author makes Original Life to con-- 
fift, which to him is nothing elfe but the Eoergelical nature of 
any being fubfiftingby it lelf, fince he underftands not, that 
fo noble a being as that is which fubfifts by it felf^ftiould be ufe- 
lefs, and fit for no operation. 
If any do object, that thefe general notions are too foon 
brought upon the Stage, and that P^rif^W^r Forms are to be 
found out firft, and thence we are to rife to the Vniverfal^iox' 
afmuch as there is nothing in the Underftanding which has not 
been firfl: in the Senfe 5 our Author thicks this ratiocination to 
be grounded upon a fallefuppofition, as if the particular rea- 
fons of things did incurr into our fenfes before the univerfal 
There are too many things in this Treatife for fuch a Bre viat 
asthismuft be, to take notice of them all. One particular 
there is, that feems very paradoxical 5 which 1 fliall but touchy 
md then conclude, it is,That this Author judgeth it to be more 
Hiilofopbicalj to hold a Penetration ofSubfiances than ^Vacuum^ 
aid tkxzx.'d, Motion not being to be denied,and confequently ei* 
tfcr a Vacuum^ or fuch a Pmetration to be afferted^ the former 
ofthefe being by biraj as he thinks^ difproved, the latter QPe^ 
mt\ation) mult take place. ' ^ . 
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