On the Vital Principle/Book 3/Prelude to Chapter 6
PRELUDE TO CHAPTER VI.
This chapter does but repeat what has already been insisted upon, that the mind or the sensibility, when engaged upon indivisibles, that is, single ideas or simple sensations, is not subject to error; and that the liability to error commences when ideas or sensations are either generalized, or judged of in their relations. It may be added, that the want of a sensorium or faculty for the generalization of particular sensations, and for affording to the mind, thereby, terms for comparison, is felt so much throughout, that the brain alone can, for some passages, fully explain all that the words may seem to imply.