BOOK I PART IV
colours, sounds, &c. are originally on the same
footing with the pain that arises from steel, and
pleasure that proceeds from a fire; and that the
difference betwixt them is founded neither on
perception nor reason, but on the imagination.
For as they are confest to be, both of them,
nothing but perceptions arising from the par-
ticular configurations and motions of the parts
of body, wherein possibly can their difference
consist? Upon the whole, then, we may con-
clude, that as far as the senses are judges, all
perceptions are the same in the manner of their
existence.
We may also observe in this instance of
sounds and colours, that we can attribute a
distinct continued existence to objects without
ever consultingreason, or weighing our opin-
ions by any philosophical principles. And in-