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Instead of the customary names, material and immaterial substances, Locke recommends cogitative and incogitative substances, since it is not inconceivable that the Creator may have endowed some material beings with the capacity of thought. They are not copies of real things, but represent themselves alone, are their own archetypes.
"When you last wrote," repeated John, in a cogitative tone. "Yes; I write about once a fortnight, of course, when Barbara writes to Johnnie." "Did Miss Crampton superintend the letters?" was John's next inquiry. "Oh no, father, we always wrote them up here." "I wonder whether Janie would have allowed this," thought John. "I suppose as they are so young it cannot signify."
But herein, I suppose, lies the danger and deceit of that supposition: there being no way to avoid the demonstration, that there is an eternal knowing Being, men devoted to matter, would willingly have it granted, that that knowing Being is material; and then, letting slide out of their minds, or the discourse, the demonstration whereby an eternal KNOWING Being was proved necessarily to exist, would argue all to be matter, and so deny a God, that is, an eternal cogitative Being: whereby they are so far from establishing, that they destroy their own hypothesis.
This latter is endowed with a cogitative and imaginative faculty, but is not permanent in its existence, because of the two intervening natures between it and the pure light of God. From the animal soul there likewise issued a splendor, which produced the vegetative soul.
In that sequestered place, where scarcely an individual was seen to pass in an hour, the deep thinking of the cogitative senator might trench the soil of the law of prescription, turn up the principle which regulated tailzies under the second part of the act 1617, and bury Traquair's right to Coberston.
One of the Austrian Columns was just entering Panten when the Fight began: in Panten that Column has stood cogitative ever since; well to left of Loudon and his struggles; but does not, till the eleventh hour, resolve to push through. Loudon had no other real chance: his furious horse-charges and attempts were met everywhere by corresponding counter-fury.
Comparative anatomists can point to organic structures which are far from being theoretically perfect: even the mind of man in these cases, notwithstanding its confessed deficiencies in respect both of cognitive and cogitative powers, is competent to suggest improvements to an intelligence supposed to be omniscient and all-wise!
My intention then in displaying so carefully the arguments of that fantastic sect, is only to make the reader sensible of the truth of my hypothesis, that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures.
To the country boor it appears self-evident that wood is annihilated by combustion; and even to the mind of the greatest philosophers of antiquity it seemed impossible to doubt that the sun moved over a stationary earth. Much more, therefore, may our broad distinction between "cogitative and incogitative being" not be a distinction which is "legitimated by the conditions of external reality."
'We seem to see a fitness in it, says the cogitative Rev. Doctor. 'And an Island England in those waters, will do wonders for Commerce, adds the former. 'We think of things more pregnant, concludes the latter, with a dry gleam of ecclesiastical knowingness. Funds, universally the most convincing of credentials, are placed at Dr.
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