S.
There is a difference betwixt power & volition. There may be volition without power. But there can be no power without volition. Power implyeth volition, & at the same time a connotation of the effects following the volition[143].
M. S.
We have assuredly an idea of substance. 'Twas absurd of Locke[144] to think we had a name without a meaning. This might prove acceptable to the Stillingfleetians.
M. S.
The substance of Body we know[145]. The substance of Spirit we do not know—it not being knowable, it being a purus actus.
I.
Words have ruin'd and overrun all the sciences—law, physique, chymistry, astrology, &c.
I.
Abstract ideas only to be had amongst the learned. The vulgar never think they have any such, nor truly do they find any want of them. Genera & species & abstract ideas are terms unknown to them.