This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803 edition. Excerpt: ...from Water and Ice. But to return to the species of corporeal fubftances. If I fhould afk any one, whether ice and-water were two distinct fpecies of things, I doubt not but I should be an-fwered in the affirmative: and it cannot be denied, but he that fays they are two distinct species, is in the right. But ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803 edition. Excerpt: ...from Water and Ice. But to return to the species of corporeal fubftances. If I fhould afk any one, whether ice and-water were two distinct fpecies of things, I doubt not but I should be an-fwered in the affirmative: and it cannot be denied, but he that fays they are two distinct species, is in the right. But if an Englishman, bred in Jamaica, who perhaps had never feen nor heard of ice, coming into England in the winter, find the water he put in his bafon at night, in Vol. II R ' a great part frozen in the, morning, and not knowing any peculiar name it had, should call it hardened watery I afk, whether this would be a ne-w fpecies to him different from water? And, I think, it would be anfwered here, it would not be to him a new species, no more than congealed gelly, when it is cold, is a di tin t species from the fame gelly fluid and warm; or than liquid gold, in the furnace, is a di tin t species from hard gold in the hands of a workman. And if this be fb, it is plain, that our distinct species are nothing but distinct complex ideas, IVith distinct names annexed to them. It is true, every fubftance that exists has its peculiar confti-tution, whereon depend thofe feafible qualities and powers we obferve in it; but the ranking of things into species, which is nothing but forting them under feveral titles, is done by us according to the ideas that we have of them: which though fufficient to diftinguifh them by names, fo that we may be able to difcourfe of them, when we have them not prefent before us; yet if we fuppofe it to be done by their real internal conftitutions, and that things exifting are diftinguifhed by nature into fpecies, by real essences, according as we diftinguifh them into species by names, we fhall be liable to great miftakes....
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