FOR the _Eyes_, placed in the uppermost part, are the most _pure_, and have an Affinity with the Nature of _Fire_ and _Light_. The _Ears_ have the second Order of _Place_ and _Purity_, and are compar’d to the _Air_. The _Nostrils_ take the third Order, and have a middle Nature betwixt _Air_ and _Water_. Then the _Organ_ of _Tasting_, which is _grosser_, and most like to the Nature of _Water_. And, lastly, _Touching_ being diffus’d through the whole _Body_, is compar’d to the _Grossness_ of _Earth_.
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.