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and adapts for every Senfe as *c were a double Organ, an inter* 
nal and external ; and the fame matter perceiving withal, that 
'tis needlefs, there fliould be an internal one, appropriate for 
every external, it forms one only interna!^ Common to all the 
'external, and by proper nerves conoecSts each external to it. 
And this tohimconfticutes Serration, which he faith is not per= 
formed without r^^^2^i/i;2j; the a<9: of Perception ^ fince, if a 
JVervCj by whofe means Perception is redoubled, be any way 
intercepted, iaaGfitta /erena^ or in a Paralitick Member^ 
here is no Scnfation. So that, according to our AuihorjSen- 
fation is Perception enobled and exaked, able to judge of its 
objed", to reflect upon it with complacency, to fufpend its 
aftioD,to avert it felf from one objefl: to another 5 whence 
Brutes themfelves are by him obferv'd to be in feme meafure 
capable of Dilcipline, and of reward and punifbment. 
From all which it appears, that here is afferted fuch a Na- 
ral Perceptions as is anterior tOj more geoer2l,and mortffira- 
pie than that of «SV;?/^ ; in which perception, accompanied with 
ppetition and motioujour Author makes Original Life to con-- 
ift, which to him is nothing elfebuc the Eoergeiical nature of 
ny being fubGfting by it felf, fince he underftands nor, that 
o noble a ^eing as that is which fubhfts 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 Particular Forms are to be 
i'ound out firft,and thence w^c are to rile to the Vniverfal^iot- 
afmuch as there is nothing in the Underftanding which has not 
beenfiift in the Senfe 5 our Author thinks this ratiocination to 
be grounded upon a falfe fuppofition, as if the particular rea- 
fons of things did incurr into our fenfes bef^ore the univerfal 
There are too many ihings in this Treatife for fuch a Breviat 
asthismuftbe, to take notice of them all. One particular 
there is, thatfcems very paradoxical 5 which 1 fhal! but touch, 
and then conclude^ it is^That this Auihor judgeth it to be more 
Philofophical, to hold a Penetration ofSubjlances than a Va^uum'^ 
and that a Motion not being to be denied,3nd conft quently ei? 
ther a Vacuum^ or fuch a Penetration co be afferted, the former 
of thife beiog by himjas he thinksjdifproved, the latter (^Pe-^ 
netratiofi) muft take place, 
I i i i i 2 Jerewics 
