A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality . «£M^^:s^X^£Q*g3£SE£^fc:<8G^^. B O O K IV, CHAP. I. Aving hitherto fhewed thatSenfe or Paffion from Corpo-real Things exiftent without theSoul, is not Intellecftion orKnowledge, fo that Bodies themfelves are notknown or underftood by Senfe; It mud needsfollow from hence, that Knowledge is anInward and Acftive Energy of the Mind itfelf, and the difplaying of its own InnateVigour from within, whereby it doth Con-quer, a Matter and Command its Objecfts, andfo begets a Clear, Serene, Victorious, and Sa-tisfactory Senfe within it felf. * Kftt
A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality . «£M^^:s^X^£Q*g3£SE£^fc:<8G^^. B O O K IV, CHAP. I. Aving hitherto fhewed thatSenfe or Paffion from Corpo-real Things exiftent without theSoul, is not Intellecftion orKnowledge, fo that Bodies themfelves are notknown or underftood by Senfe; It mud needsfollow from hence, that Knowledge is anInward and Acftive Energy of the Mind itfelf, and the difplaying of its own InnateVigour from within, whereby it doth Con-quer, a Matter and Command its Objecfts, andfo begets a Clear, Serene, Victorious, and Sa-tisfactory Senfe within it felf. * KfttTtir. Where- Immutable Morality. 127 Wherefore though it be vulgarly con-ceived that Knowledge arifes from the Forceof the Thing Known, afting upon that whichknows from without; yet conrrarywife it ismoft certain, to ufe Boetiuss Exprejlion,b That IntelleSlion and Knowledge do not arifefrom the Force and Afiivity of the ThingKnown from Without, upon that which Knows,but from the Inward Power, Vigour and Acti-vity of the Mind that Knows actively, Com-prehending the Objett within it f
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