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 and Definitions, that is to ay, to undertand Natural Hitory and Metaphyics, Advantages which the Men of thee Times could not have enjoyed.

Beides, general Ideas cannot be conveyed to the Mind without the Aitance of Words, nor can the Undertanding eize them without the Aitance of Propoitions. This is one of the Reaons, why mere Animals cannot form uch Ideas, nor ever acquire the Perfectibility, which depends on uch an Operation. When a Monkey leaves without the leat Heitation one Nut for another, are we to think he has any general Idea of that kind of Fruit, and that he compares thee two individual Bodies with his Archetype Notion of them? No certainly; but the ight of one of thee Nuts calls back to his Memory the Senations which he has received from the other; and his Eyes, modified after ome certain manner, give