[Sidenote: Whence its force to conceive individual existences, to separate those things when known, to unite divided things, and to choose and change its path, soaring to the highest and descending to the lowest things--and returning to itself, to confute false things by the true?] and whennes is þilke strengþe þat byholdeþ þe syngulere þinges. or whennes is þe strengþe þat dyuydeþ þinges yknowe. {and} þilke stre{n}gþe þat gadereþ to-gidre þe þinges deuided. {and} þe strengþe þat 4852 cheseþ hys entrechau{n}ged wey for som tyme it heueþ vp þe heued. þat is to sein þat it heueþ vp þe ente{n}c{i}ou{n} to ryȝt heye þinges. {and} som tyme it discendiþ in to ryȝt lowe þinges. {and} whan it retourniþ in to hym 4856 self. it rep{re}uiþ {and} destroieþ þe false þinges by þe trewe þinges. [Sidenote: This cause is more efficacious and powerful to see and to know things, than that cause which receives the characters impressed like servile matter.] ¶ Certys þis strengþe is cause more efficient {and} mochel more myȝty to seen {and} to knowe þinges. þan þilke cause þat suffriþ and resceyueþ þe 4860 notes {and} þe figures inp{re}ssed in manere of matere [Sidenote: Yet the sense in the living body excites and moves the mental powers; as when the light striking the eyes causes them to see, or as the voice rushing into the ear excites hearing.] algates þe passiou{n} þat is to seyn þe suffraunce or þe wit i{n} þe quik[e] body goþ byforne excitynge {and} moeuyng þe strengþes of þe þouȝte. ryȝt so as whan þat 4864 clerenesse smyteþ þe eyen {and} moeuiþ hem to seen. or ryȝt so as voys or soune hurtliþ to þe eres {and} co{m}moeuiþ hem to herkne. [Sidenote: Then is the force of thought excited; it calls forth the images within itself, and adds to them the outward forms, blending external images with the counterparts concealed within.] þan is þe stre{n}gþe of þe þouȝt ymoeuid {and} excitid {and} clepeþ furþe þe semblable 4868 moeuynges þe speces þat it halt wiþ i{n}ne it self. {and} addiþ þo speces to þe notes {and} to þe þinges wiþ out forþe. {and} medeleþ þe ymages of þinges wiþ out forþe to þe forme[s] yhid wiþ i{n}ne hym self. 4872 [Linenotes: 4827 _hadde_--hadden _dispoyten_--desputen 4828 _brouȝt[e]_--browhte 4830 [_and_]--from C. 4837 _inprentid_--aprentyd 4838 _some tyme_--somtyme _swift_--swyfte 4840 _haþ_--MS. haþe 4843 _vnplitiþ_--vnpleyteth _doþ_--MS. doþe 4845 _þe_--tho 4863 _quik[e]_--qwyke _goþ_--MS. goþe 4864 _þouȝte_--thoght 4865 _clerenesse_--cleernesse 4866 _soune_--sown 4868 _furþe_--forth 4870 _out_--owte 4871 _out forþe_--owte forth 4872 _forme[s]_--formes _yhid_--I-hidde]