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 metaphyical, and withal not very natural, yet uch, however, that without it thee Ideas could never have been hifted from one Species or Genius to another, or Numbers become univeral. A Savage might eparately conider his Right Leg and his Left Leg, or conider them together under the indiviible Idea of a Pair, without ever thinking that he had two; for the repreentative Idea, which paints an Object to us, is one thing, and the numerical Idea, which determines it, another: He could till les reckon as far as five; and though on applying his Hands one to another he might oberve that the Fingers exactly anwered to each other, he was very far from thinking on their numerical Quality. He knew as little of the Number of his Fingers as of his Hairs; and if, after making him undertand what Numbers are, ome one had told him that he had as many Toes as Fingers, he would perhaps have been greatly urprized to find it true on comparing them together.

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(15.) We mut not confound Selfihnes with Self-love; they are two very ditinct Paions both in their Nature and in their Effects. Self-love is a natural Sentiment, which inclines