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Show 1-86 R eafity of Knowledge. Book lV. Copies, are yet the SubjeCts of real (as fa·r as we have any) KnowleJge of them; which(as has been alteady 01ewed) wiii not be found to reach very far: But fo far as it does, it will fiill be reall{nowledge. Whatever ltleas we have, the Agreement we lind they have with others, will ilii! be Knowledge. If thofe JdeaJ be abfiraet, it will be general !{now ledge. But to make it real concerning Subfiances, the ftl.as mu£1: be taken from the real exifience of Things; whatever iimplc ld-.s have been found to co-exi£1: in any Subfiance, thefe we may with confidence join together again, and fo make abfrraet Ideas of Subfia11ccs. For whatever have once. bad an union in Nature, may be united again. 9. q. This, if we rightly confider, and confine not oMr 1!Jougbts and abfimet Ideas to Names, as if there were, or could be no other Sorts of Things, than what known Names had already determined, 11nd as it were fet out, we 010uld think of Things with greater freedom and lefs confufion, than perhaps we do. 'Twould pollibly be thought a bold Paradox if net a very dangerous Falfl10od, if lihould fay, that fome Changelin~s who have lived forty years toget11er, Without any appearance of Rca(~,; are fomethmg between a Man and a Beal!: Wluch l>tejudice is founded upon nothing elfe but a falfe Suppofition, that rhefe 1:wo Names Man and Beall, fiand fordillinCt Species fo fet out by real Eifences, rh;t there can come ho other Spec1es between them; Whereas if we will abfuaet from thofe Names, and the Suppofition of fu'ch fpecifick Elfences made by Nature, wherein all "ifhings of the fame Den0minations did 'e!Caetly and equally partake; if we would not fan fie, that there were a certain number of rhefe Menees, wherein all Thin£S,l!S in Molds, werecafi.andfor· m.ed, we fhould lind that the Idea of the Shape,Motion,aod Life of a Man Wtthout Reafon, 1s as much a di£l:in61: Idea, and m~kes as muclut .diflinCl: f0I'tdf'I'hings'from Man aAd Bea£1:, as the Idea of the Shape of.an Afs Wtth Rcnfon, ~vmllll '?"different from.either that of Man or Beitll, and be a Spectes 0! an Am mal between, or difrind: from both. ~. 1:4- Here every body wlll be ready to ask, if C!Jangelings may be fuppofed fomethtng between Man and Beaft • 'Pray what are ,rhey! 1 anfwer, Cbang,elrngs ; whtch ts as ·good a Word to ,fignilie fomething dtfferent from the ligmficatton of M A 111 "' 1J '[! /1 S :r. as the Names Ma.n and Bea£1: are to have fignifications different one 'rrom the other. Tins, weiJ ~nlidercd, would refolve this matter, and lhew my meaning WttlJOut any more ado. But I ~m not fo unacquainted with the Zeal ?f fome Men, whtch enables them to fpin Confequences, and to fee Rehgt?n rhreatned whenever any one ventures to quit their forms of Spealnng, as not to forefee what Names fuch a Propoiition as tlus is like ttl be eharf?ed wtth: And Without doubt it will be asked, If Changelings arefomethmg between Man and Bea£1:, what Wtll become of them in the othe~ World! To which l anfwer, 1. It concerns me not to know or cn9utre. To thetr own Mafrer they fiand or fall : It will make their fiate netther better nor worfe, whether we determine any thing of it, or no: They are tn the hands of a fatthful Creator and a bountiful Father, who d~fpofes not. of hts Creatures accordmg to our narrow Thoughts or Opi· nt?ns, nor dtfrmgmfhes them accordtng to Names and Species of our Cor.• tnv~nce. And we that know fo little of this prefent World weare in,may, I tlunk, cont~nt our felves without being peremptory, in defining the dtfferent frate Creatures Otall come into, when they go off this Stage. It may fullice us? that he lmh made known to all thofe, who are capable of.Infirufhon, f?tfcourfe, and Reafoning, that they fhall come to an ac• count, and recetve accordmg to what they have done in this Body. §.I). Ch:::;-a-p-.I ;;;V;;-.---;R;:;-\e-al-;:-ity-of;,:- -;1(:::-n-oUJ-:!e:-dg:-e-; ---~ ~. 15: But, Secondly, I an fiver, The force of thefe Men's Q,tefiion, ( ~iz. wdl you dcpnve Ch•ngcltngs of a future fiate ') is founded on one oft"·o Suppofittons, whtch are both falfe. The firfl is, T hat all Things that have the outwa.rd Shape and appearance of a Man mu£1: ncceiTarily (Jedeligned to an immortal future Being, after this Litb. Or fecondly that whatever i• of humane Birth, mu£1: be fo. Take away tl;efe !magi: aarions, and fuch Q,tefiions will be groundlefs and ridiculous. I defire then tbofe who think there is no more but an accidental difference between thcmfelves and Changelings, the Eifcnce in both being exaCtly the fame, to conl.der, whether they can unagme Immortality annexed to any outward 01ape of the !lody ; the very pro poling it, is, I fuppofe,enough 10 make them dtfown tt. No one yet, that ever I heard ot, how much !jx:ver immerfcd in Matter, allow'd that Excellency to any Figure of the Jlrofs fenl.ble outward parts, as to affirm eternal Life due to it, or neceflitry confequence of tt; or that any mafs of Matter 0Jould, after itsditTolurion here, be again refiored hereafter to an everlafring !late of Senfe, Perception , and Know ledge , only becaufe it was molded into this or that Figure, and had fuch a particular frame of its vifiblc parts. Such an OpinioA as this, placing Immortality in a certain fuperlicial Figure, turns out of doors all confideration of Soul or Spirit; and upon whofe account alone, fome corporeal Beings have hitherto been concluded immortal, and others not.This is to attribute more to the outiidc,than in fide ofThings; to place the Excellency of a Man,more in the external Shape of his Body,thari Internal Perfc£lions of his Soul;" which is but little better than ~o annex the great and inefiimable advantage of Immortality and Life everlafring , which he has above other material Beings: To annex it, I fay, to the Cut ofhis Beard, or the Fafl1ion of his Coat; for this or that outward Make of our Ilodies, no more carries with it the hopes of an eternal Duration, tbaQ the Fafi1ion of a Man's Suit gives him reafonable grounds to imagine il will never wear out, or that it will make him immortal. 'Twill perhaps bQ laid, that no Body thinks that the Shape makes any thing immortal,but 'tis tpe Shape i• the ,lign of a rational Soul within ~vhich is immortal. I 11:\jnder who 0!7]~! jt the lign ·of any fuch Thing; for barely faying it, W!JI;not make y, ,;~. It would require fome Proofs to perfuade one of it. No Figure tlm;J know fpeaks any fuch L1nguage. For it may as rational ])'~ •concludesJ,. Eqatthe dead Body of a Man, wherein there is to be f~d no more appearance or aCtion of Life, than there is in a Statue, has • JQtpeverthelef~ a living Soul in it, becaufe of its 01ape ; as that there is a ~tiona! Soul in a Changeling, becaufe he has the outfide of a rational Qntu·r~; when his ACtions carry far lefs marks ofReafon with them, in ' tjie wJ1ole courfe of his Life , than what are to be found in many a Beall. ~ 16. But ' tis theitTucof rational Parents, and mu£1: therefore be conq.; Je<J, to have a rational Soul. I know not by what Logick you mu£1: contlude fo. I am fure tltis is a Conclu(jon, That Men no· where allow U: For if they did, they would not make bold, as every-where they do, rodeftroy ill-formed and mif-{haped ProduCtions. Ay, but thefe are Mowf/ers. Let them be fo; What will your driyling, unintelligent, ilb~~ le Changeling be! Shall a defcCI: in the Body make a Monller; a dllfed in the Mind,( the far more Noble,and,in the common phrafe,the far IIIOI'eEffentinl part, not 1 Shall the want of a Nofe,or a Neck, make a Mon· Am-,,and put fuch Jlfue out of the rank of Men; the want of Reafon and tlqdqfianding,) not? This is to bring all back again to what was explo· ded juQ now : Tl1isis to place all in the Shape, and to take the meafure of 4ll&all only by his out-fide. To 01ew thar accordmg to the ordmary way |