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Show Simple !dear. Book II. plex Ideas. But it is not in the Power of th':' moil: exalted Wit, or enlarged Underftanding, by any qu1cknefs or vanety of Thought, to'"'"'"' cr frame one nm fimple Idea in the Mind,not taken m by the ways belcre mentioned : nor can any Force of the Ugderllandmg, t!eflroy thofe that are there. The Dominion of Man m th!Shttle World of Ius 0\m Underil: anding, beingmuchwhatthe fame, as1t 1s m the great World ofv1fible things· wherein his Power, however managed by Art and SIHJI, reaches no farther, than rocompound and divide the Materials that are made to his Hand ; but can do nothing towards the makmg the leail: Particle of new Matter, or dellroyingonc Atomeof what 1s already m Bemg. The fame inability, will every one find m lumfelf, who !hall · go about to fafuion in his Under/landing any fimple idea? not rece1.ved 111 by Ius Senfes, from external Objects, or from the Operattons of Ius own Mmd about them. 1 would have any one try to phanfie any Talle, wh1ch had never affected his Palate ; or frame the idea of a Scent,he had never fmel t: And when he can do this, I will alfo conclude, that a blind Mao hath /. de as of Colours and a deaf Man true dillinct Notions of founds. §. 3· This is ~he Reafon why,though we cannot believe it impoffible to God to makeaCreature ,with other Organs,andmore ways to convey into the Underllanding the notice of Corporeal things, than thofe five, as they are ufually counted, which he has given to Man : Yet I thi~k, it is not pof jible, for any one to imagine any other QJ;~Ittus m Bod1es, howfoever conllituted, whereby they can be t~ken nouce of, befides Sounds, Taftes, Smells, vifible and tangible Qgahttes. And had Manlnnd been made with but four Senfes, the Q.ualities then, which are the Object of the Fifth Senfe, had been as far from our notice, Imagination, and Conccption, as no\~ any belonging, to a Sixth,Seventh, or Eig_hthSenfe, can polli· bly be ; wh1ch, whethe~ yet fo~e other Creatures, m fome other Parts of this vail:, and llupend10us Umyerfe, may not have, wdl be a grc.t Prefumption to deny. He that wdl not fer lumfelf proudly at the top of all things; but will confider the Immenfity ofthisFabrick, and rhe great variety, that is to be found in this little and inconfiderable part of it, which he has to do with, may be apt to think, that in other Manfions of it, there may be other, and different intelligent Beings, ofwhofe Faculties, he has as little Knowledge or Apprehenfion, as a worm !hut up in one drawer of a Cabinet, hath of the Senfes or Underil:anding of a Man; Such Variety and Excellency, being fuitable to the Wifdom and Power of the Maker. I have here followed the common Opinion of Man's having but fiveSenfes ;, though, perhaps, there may be jullly counted more; but either Suppofitton fervesequally to my prefent Purpofe. CHAP. Chap. lll CHAP . . III. Of Ideas of oue Senft I §. r.TH E better to conceive the Idear, we receive from Senfation ' it may not be ami1S for us to confider them, in reference t~ the different ways, whereby they make their Approaches to our Minds and make themfelves perceivable by us. ' Firfl then, There are fome, which come into our Minds by 011e Senft only. . Secondly, There are others, that convey themfelves into the Mind~ more Senfes tban one . Thirdly, Others that are had from Refldlion only. . Fourthly, There are fome that make themfelves way,ond are fuggelled to the Mind by all the wayr of Senfatron and•Rejlellion. 'We 1hall confider them apart und,er thefe feveral Heads: Fir ./I, There are .fome Ideas, which• /:ave admitta11ce only through one S.nfe, which is peculiarly adapted to receive them. ThusLightand Colours, as white, red, yellow, blue; witli1their feveral Degrees or Shades and Mixtures, as Green, Scarlet, Purple, Sea-green, and the reil: com; in only by the Eyes : All kinds of Noifes, SoundS', and I' ones dnly by the Ears : The feveral Tail:es and Smells, by the Nofe and Palate. And if theleOrgans, or the Nerves which are the Conduits, to ·convey them from without to their Audience in the Brain, the Mind's Prefence-Room (as 1 may fo call it) arc any of them fo difordered, as not to perform their F~nctions, they .have ~o Poil:ern to be admitted by; no other way to bnng themfelves mto v1ew, and be perce1ved by the Underil:anding. The moil: confiderable of thofe, belonging to the Touch are Heat and Cold, and Solidity; all thereil:, confiil:ing almoil: wholly in the fenfible Configuration, as fmooth and rough; or elfe more, or lef< firm adhefion of the Parts, as hard and foft, tough and brittle, are obvious enough. §. ~. I think, it will be needlefs to en~merat~ a!l the particular jimple Ideas, belongmg to each Senfe : Nor mdeed 1s 1t poJiible, if 1ve would there being a great many more of them belonging to moil of the Senfes' than we haw Names for. The variety of Smells, which are as many a!~ moll, if not more than Species of Bodies in the World, do moil: of them want Names. Sw~etand Stinking,commonly ferve our turn for thefeidear, wh1ch m effect, lS httle more than to call them pleating or difpleafing ; though the fmell of a Rofe, and Violet,both fweet, are certainly very diflinet Jt!eas. Nor are the different Taftes that are in Nature, much better provided with Names.. Sweet, Bitter and Sowre, Harlh and Salt, are a! moil: all we have to denominate all the variety of Relifi1es, which are to be found diflmCt, not only in a! moil: every fort of Creatures, but in the different Parts of the fame Plant or Animal. The fame may be faid of Colour and Sound. I 1hall therefore in the account of fimple Jt!eas, I am here g1vmg, content my felftofetdown only fuch, as are moll material to our prefent Purpofe, or are in themfelves lefs apt to be taken notice of, though they are very frequently the Ingredients of our complex It!eas, among!t |