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Besides, how is it, and by what Art doth it read that such an image or stroke in matter (whether that of her vehicle, or of the Brain, the case is the same) signifies such an object? Did we learn an Alphabet in our Embryo-sta. T& ? And how comes it to pass, that we are not aware of any such congenite apprehensions ? We know what we know; but do we know any more ? That SCEPSIS SCIENTIFICA. 27 by diversity of motions we should spell out figures, distances, magnitudes, colours, things not resemble...d by them ; we must attribute to some secret deduction. But what this deduction should be, or by what mediums this Knowledge is advanc'd ; is as dark, as Ignorance. One, that hath not the know- ledge of Letters, may see the Figures; but comprehends not the meaning included in them : An infant may hear the sounds, and see the motion of the lips ; but hath no conception conveyed by them, no knowing what they are intended to signifie. So our Souls, though they might have perceived the motions and images themselves by simple sense; yet without some implicit inference it seems inconceivable, how by that means they should apprehend their Archetypes.
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