Sect. 4.
He goes on.* 1.1 [The decay of sence in man (saith he) waking, is not the decay of the motion made in sence, but an obscuring of it:] This I apprehend most untrue; for when the Organ ceaseth to judge, that motion which he
Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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- Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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calleth sence, ceaseth, and is no longer; but those Species lie lockt up in the Memory, and there is no act of sen∣sation concerning them, no not a decayed one. That Philosophy,* 1.2 which he delivers concerning the Sun and the Stars, to illustrate this by, I grant, that the Stars do emit and send forth their Light when the Sun shineth, but the excess of the Suns Light obscures that of the Stars; yet his Application of it to this purpose is utter∣ly vain; for there both the Objects work, like Natural Agents, according to their utmost, and the greater by its force masters the lesse; but here, in our businesse, the Object is removed, or the Organ, and there is no ope∣ration of one upon the other at all, the species being crept within the Organ, the eye cannot judge of it; and the object or Organ, being diverted, or indisposed▪ can∣not produce such an act any longer; it is as if the Stars were removed out of the Heaven, not shining with the Sun; so that we fancy colors in the dark, when no strength of another Object, more powerfull, doth work upon our sense; and sometimes in the dark we do not imploy our Imaginations about colours, and yet in that dark we have no vehement Object to obscure our fancy; so that it is not the suppression or weakning of sense, by another Object, which maketh us not see, but the cessation of sense, by the removal of either Organ, or Object, one from another. And again we may observe, that al∣though the Sun shine, and the Objects external move ne∣ver so powerfully, yet the fancy is busied about some internal conceit, or other things absent, which could not be, if only the vehement stroakes from the object did produce this act; for then that being, the fancy should likewise be.
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* 1.1
Memory no decaying sense, the act of Sensation being wholly p••st.
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His illustrati∣on from the Suns light, ob∣scuring that of the Stars, in∣c••ng••uous.