OBJECT. III.

* _Which of them is it, that is distinct from my thought? which of them

is it that can be separated from me?_

Some perhaps will answer this Question thus, I my self, who _think_ am

distinct from my _thought_, and my _thought_ is _different_ from me

(tho’ not _seperated_) as _dancing_ is _distinguished_ from the _Dancer_

(as before is noted.) But if _Des-Cartes_ will prove, that _he_ who

_understands_ is the same with his _understanding_, we shall fall into

the Scholastick expressions, the _understanding understands_, the _sight

sees_, the _Will wills_, and then by an exact analogy, the Walking (or

at least the _Faculty_ of walking) shall walk. All which are obscure,

improper, and unworthy that perspicuity which is usual with the noble

_Des-Cartes_.

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