For nothing can operate that is not able to operate; and that is not able to operate that has no power to operate.

Nor do I deny that those words, and the like, are to have their place in the common use of languages that have made them current.

It looks like too much affectation wholly to lay them by: and philosophy itself, though it likes not a gaudy dress, yet, when it appears in public, must have so much complacency as to be clothed in the ordinary fashion and language of the country, so far as it can consist with truth and perspicuity.

But the fault has been, that faculties have been spoken of and represented as so many distinct agents.

For, it being asked, what it was that digested the meat in our stomachs?
it was a ready and very satisfactory answer to say, that it was the DIGESTIVE FACULTY.