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ideas we get by more than one sense are of space, or extension, figure, rest, and motion; for these make perceivable impressions, both on the eyes and touch: and we can receive and convey into our minds the ideas of the extension, figure, motion, and rest of bodies, both by seeing and feeling. But having occasion to speak more at large of these in another place, I here only enumerate them.

§ 1. mind, receiving the ideas, mentioned in the foregoing chapters, from without, when it turns its view inward upon itself, and observes its own actions about those ideas it has, takes from thence other ideas, which are as capable to be the objects of its contemplation as any of those it received from foreign things.

§ 2. The two great and principal actions of the mind, which are most frequently considered, and which are so and idea frequent, that every one that pleases may take notice of them in himself, are these two: perception or thinking; and volition or willing. The power of thinking is called the understanding, and the power of volition is called the