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Show 4 P4" 1; Of M A N. dep,2. fevcrcd from them, as by glaffes, and in Ecchoes by reflection, wee fee they are-7 where we know the thing we fee,rs in one place; the aP' parence, in another. And though. at fome certain drflance, the real], and very objea feem invefled with the fancy it begets in us 5 Yet {till the object is one thing , the image orfiincy is another. So that Senfc in all cafes, is nothing els but orrgrnallfanCy, caufed (as I have laid ) by the preffure, that is, by the motron,ot externall things upon our Eyes, Bates, and other organs thereunto ordained. Part}. of MA N. Chap-.2. km time after -, f0 alfoit happeneth in that motion, which rs made in the mternall parts of a man, then,when he Sees, .Dreams,&c. For afe‘ methe' obje€t is removed, or the eye flir‘ut, wee rlrll retain an rrnagehol the thing feen, though more obfcure than when we fee it. .And‘ t is isit, the Latines call I'magwatzm, from the image mad;: 1!} leengg; mdapply the fame, though nnPl-opei‘t‘jhmo alltht other . n e3.' 11! But the Philofophy-fchooles,through all the Unrverfities of Chri- fiendome, grounded upon certain Texts of Ariflatle, teach another the Greeks call it Fancy ,which fignr esqparmw, and is as proper to one fenfe, as to another, I'M A or N A 1' ION therefore is nothing . ut &rmymgfifljc -, and is found in memand many other livmg Creatures, doctrine ~, and lay, For the caufe of Vifion, that the thing fee n, fendcth forth on eve fidc a W lble [Peeies ( in Englifh ) a ruzfiblg can, afwelllleeping, as waking. . , ' The decay of Senfe in mm wakmggsnm the decay 0f "he motion, 4 parztion, or aficiora eing few ,the receivmg whereof into the {yg is Swing. And for the caufe of Heang, that the thing heard, fendeth forth an Audilzlefpcciu, that is, an Audzlzle afpefi, or Audi- made in, fen-{e ,but an oblcurmg of it, in fuch manner, as the light of 6!: being fem -, which entrin at the Eare, maketh Heariflg. Nay for the Sunobfcm-eth the light of the Starres; which flarrs do no lefs exercife their venue by which they are vrfible, in the day, than in the niaht. But becaufe amongft many llrcxrlts, which our eyes, cares, and the caule ofuudczflamding [0, they lay the thing Underflood lend- or er organs receive from externall bodies, the. predominant onely is cth forth intellz'gz' lefpecz‘egthatis, an inteflzgiéle being few 5 which fenfible -, therefore the lig ht ofthe Sun berng predominant, we are th comming into the Underflanding, makes us Underfiand. affefled with the action of the fiarrs. And any object being removed I fa . not this,as difap roving the ufe of Univerfities: but becaufi: I am to peak hereafter 0 their office in a Common-wealth , I mull let you fee on all oceafions by the way, what things would be amended in them ; amongfi which the frequenCy of infignificant Speech is one. My, from our eyes, though the impreflion it made in us remain, yet 03th objects more pr'e fem fucceeding, and "Oilsan on us, the Imagination of the pallis Obfcured, and made weak; as the voyce of a man rs in the noyfe of the day. From whence it followeth, that the longer the time is, after the fight, or Senfe of any object, the weaker is the lime gination. Forthe continuall change of mans body, deih‘oyes in time: the parts which in fenfe were moved : So that drfiance of time, and of C H A P. 11. OfIMAG INATION. place, hath one and the fame eifeét in us. For as at a great drftance. of place, that which wee look at, appears chrome, and Without drlhnc‘tron of the fmaller parts 5 and as Voyces grow weak, and rnartrculate: fo Hat when athinglies flill,unleITe fomewhat els Will lye flill for ever, is a truth that no man doub [titre it, it that whenathrng is in motion, it will eternally ts of. But be in motion, unlefsloinewhat els {lay it, fame, (namely, that nothing can change though the reafon be the fented m. For men meafure, not onelyit felfe,) is not [0 eafily at? other men, but all other alfo after great dii‘tance of time, our imagination of the Pail lS weak 3 and wee lofe (tbrexample) of Cities wee have feen, many particuf lat Streets, and of Actions, many particular Circumftances. This decaying/tuft», when wee would expre fs the thing it felf, ( I mean a»6} it felfe,) wee call [Illilgiil/ltioil, as I faid before : But when we would exprefs the dew], and fignifie that the Sen fe is fading, old, and pail, itis calledivemory. So that Imagination and Memory , are but one things, bythcml‘elves :and becaufe they find themfelves fubjeét af~ ter monon to pain, and lallitude, think every thing els growes wear of mouo thing, which for divers conlitlcr‘titiojis liarli tll'VCI‘S names. accord, little confiderin whether it be not iome other moti on, wherein that defire of reft the ' find in tlremlelves, confifieth. em . Againe, Imagination being only of thofe things which ave n,and1eeks repofe of its own From fay,llcavy bodies fall downwards, hence it is, that the Schooles conlerve their nature in that place out of an appetite to reil and to h is molt proper fol them aleribing appetite, and Knowledgewhic of what is good for their confer:"no": \WlllCll is more than man lras to ' - ~ _ lui'dl . ) things inanimate, ab ‘ lief?) :IESdfillls once in motion, it ut in time anril by aand whatloeve moveth .( unlefs fomethin els rhi water (h , h h y egrees quite ext ndreth it, cannot in an in ant, inguiihrt2And as wee fee in the , 011g t e "an d ceafe, the waves give not ove r rowling for a long Much memory, or memory of many things, IS called Ex cribeen formerly perceived by Senfe , either all at once , or by parts at feverall times; The former", (which is the imagining the whole object, as itwas prefented tothefenfe) is [imp/e Imagination; as when one imagineth a man, or lrorfe , which he hath feen before . The other is gonzpowdcd, as when from the fight ofa man at one time , and of a horie at another, we conceive in our mind a Centaure . So when a man compountleth the image of his own perfon, with the image ofthe actions of an other man; as when a man im‘ "is himfelh: a Heron/(J, or an Alexander, (Whidi '13Ppenetli or n to them that are much taken with reading of R9- mants ‘} it it a compound imagination , and properly but a Fiche? ll 2, o Memory. |
