PART 1 OF MAN




CHAPTER 1

OF SENSE


Concerning the Thoughts of man, I will consider them first Singly,
and afterwards in Trayne, or dependance upon one another.
Singly, they are every one a Representation or Apparence,
of some quality, or other Accident of a body without us;
which is commonly called an Object. Which Object worketh on
the Eyes, Eares, and other parts of mans body; and by diversity
of working, produceth diversity of Apparences.

The Originall of them all, is that which we call Sense; (For there
is no conception in a mans mind, which hath not at first, totally,
or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of Sense.) The rest are
derived from that originall.

To know the naturall cause of Sense, is not very necessary to
the business now in hand; and I have els-where written of
the same at large. Nevertheless, to fill each part of my present method,
I will briefly deliver the same in this place.

The cause of Sense, is the Externall Body, or Object, which