AND of these, the more _pure SENSES_, are those which perceive their _Objects_ farthest off; as first _Seeing_, then _Hearing_, then _Smelling_, which are all more pure than _Taste_, which doth not perceive but what is _nigh_: whereas the _Touch_ perceives _both Ways_; it perceives _Bodies nigh_: And as _Sight_ discerns by the _Medium_ of the _Air_; so the _Touch_ perceives, by the _Medium_ of a _Pole_, Bodies _hard_, _soft_, _dry_, _moist_, &c. NOW this Sense of _Touching_, is common indeed to all _Animals_: However, ’tis certain that _Man_, in this, as well as in the Sense of _Tasting_, excels all others: whereas, in the other _three_, he is exceeded by some _Brutes_, as by a _Dog_, which _hears_, _sees_, and _smells_ much more acutely than MAN. Besides, the _Lynx_, and _Eagle_, see more acutely than _Man_, or any other _Creature_ in the World. AS to the _interiour SENSES_, they are (according to _Averroes_) divided into _Four_; whereof the _first_ is called the _Common Sense_, because it collects and perfects such _Representations_ as are drawn-in by the _external SENSES_. The _second_ is the _Imaginative Faculty_, which retains those receiv’d _Representations_, and presents them to the _third Faculty_ of _internal SENSE_; which is call’d the _Cogitative Faculty_, _Phantasy_, or _Power_ of _Judging_: Because it perceives and judges by the _Representations_ received, what Nature or Kind of Thing that is, of which the _Representations_ are made; and commits those _Things_ thus discerned and adjudged, to the _fourth Faculty_ of _Inward SENSE_, the _Memory_, to be kept there, and retain’d by it. AND these _Four SENSES_ have their respective _Organs_ in the _Head_: _Common Sense_ and _Imagination_ possess the two former _Cells_ of the BRAIN, as the _Cogitative Faculty_ doth the highest, and middle Part of the _Head_; the _Memory_ taking up the hindmost Part thereof. THE _Organs_ of SPEECH and VOICE are as many as the inward _Muscles_ of the THORAX, betwixt the _Ribs_, _Breasts_, _Lungs_, _Arteries_, _Wind-pipe_, the Bending of the _Tongue_, and all Parts and _Muscles_, serving for Respiration, or Breathing: But the proper and immediate _Organ_ of SPEECH, is the _Mouth_, in which are fram’d _Words_ and _Sentences_, by the _Tongue_, _Teeth_, _Palate_, _Lips_, &c. above the _sensitive_ SOUL, which expresseth its _Powers_ by the _Organs_ of the Body. The _incorporeal Mind_ possesseth the highest Place, and hath a _double Nature_; the _one_ called the _Contemplative_, the _other_ the _Active Intellect_, because of their respective _Faculties_.