Book,  Chapter

 1    Int         |           those measures, whereby a rational creature, put in that state
 2      I,  I     |           reason, and truths that a rational creature may certainty come
 3      I,  I     |           many years, even of their rational age, without ever thinking
 4      I,  I     |          being a concomitant of the rational faculty, and growing up
 5      I,  I     |       acknowledged to be capable of rational conversation. If assenting
 6      I,  II    |             if rightly explained, a rational creature can hardly avoid
 7      I,  III   |             of the creation, that a rational creature, who will but seriously
 8      I,  III   |       imagine they were taught by a rational man; much less that they
 9      I,  III   |          equal. There was never any rational creature that set himself
10      I,  III   |           he understands; and every rational man that hath not thought
11      I,  III   |        progress in the discovery of rational and contemplative knowledge,
12     II,  I     |       sleeping man ought to be most rational. To think often, and never
13     II,  I     |           perfection and order of a rational being, those who are acquainted
14     II,  I     |           separate thoughts be less rational, then these men must say,
15     II,  I     |         soul owes the perfection of rational thinking to the body: if
16     II,  I     |             retain none of its more rational soliloquies and meditations.~
17     II,  I     |            hard to imagine that the rational soul should think so much,
18     II,  X     |         thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege
19     II,  XVI   |         were otherwise of quick and rational parts enough,) could not,
20     II,  XVII  |  unavoidable for every considering, rational creature, that will but
21     II,  XX    |      wrangling, and the pleasure of rational conversation with a friend,
22     II,  XXI   |           that will not be so far a rational creature as to reflect seriously
23     II,  XXIII |      existence of body; it being as rational to affirm there is no body,
24     II,  XXVII |            other a very intelligent rational parrot. A relation we have
25     II,  XXVII |    countenance the supposition of a rational parrot.~His words are: “
26     II,  XXVII |           have passed for a race of rational animals; but yet, whether,
27     II,  XXVII |           the idea of a thinking or rational being alone that makes the
28     II,  XXVII |              i.e. the sameness of a rational being: and as far as this
29     II,  XXVII |           one, he passed for a very rational man, and the press has shown
30     II,  XXVII |          same man. For, supposing a rational spirit be the idea of a
31     II,  XXVII |           the same man. Supposing a rational spirit vitally united to
32     II,  XXVII |             make a man; whilst that rational spirit, with that vital
33     II,  XXX   |            in any substance: v.g. a rational creature, consisting of
34     II,  XXXIII|          original in very sober and rational minds, and wherein it consists.~
35     II,  XXXIII|         rack, and hope to allay, by rational discourses, the pain of
36    III,  III   |          when it is defined to be a rational animal: which, by the several
37    III,  III   |         species. The other and more rational opinion is of those who
38    III,  IV    |              which would puzzle any rational man, to whom it was not
39    III,  VI    |             of the most ignorant of rational creatures. Therefore we
40    III,  VI    |             Likewise, to say that a rational animal is capable of conversation,
41    III,  VI    |           signs of being acted by a rational soul. Whereby it is evident,
42    III,  VI    |            been a little altered, a rational soul could not have been
43    III,  VI    |          within, are different in a rational man and a changeling; no
44    III,  VII   |            well such methodical and rational thoughts, he must have words
45    III,  VIII  |           that man is an animal, or rational, or white, yet every one
46    III,  VIII  |     ordinary objects: or, “a man is rational,” signifies that the same
47    III,  X     |           and would signify that “a rational animal” better described
48    III,  XI    |      nothing by man but a corporeal rational creature: what the real
49    III,  XI    |      unchangeable idea, a corporeal rational being. For, were there a
50    III,  XI    |         knowing whether they have a rational soul or no; which can be
51    III,  XI    |           it has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement,
52     IV,  III   |          which is demonstration, or rational knowledge.~4. Nor does demonstrative
53     IV,  III   |            above observed, that our rational knowledge cannot reach to
54     IV,  III   |        ourselves, as understanding, rational creatures, being such as
55     IV,  IV    |          the shape is the sign of a rational soul within, which is immortal.
56     IV,  IV    |           shape; as that there is a rational soul in a changeling, because
57     IV,  IV    |             he has the outside of a rational creature, when his actions
58     IV,  IV    |              But it is the issue of rational parents, and must therefore
59     IV,  IV    |    therefore be concluded to have a rational soul. I know not by what
60     IV,  IV    |          changeling is a man, has a rational soul, though it appear not:
61     IV,  IV    |            with you that it hath no rational soul, and must be destroyed.
62     IV,  IV    |              that carries with it a rational soul? For, since there have
63     IV,  IV    |             or are not capable of a rational soul to be joined to them.
64     IV,  VI    |            affirm, that all men are rational, or that all gold is yellow.
65     IV,  VII   |          and that which I think the rational part of mankind, not corrupted
66     IV,  VII   |             shape adds laughter and rational discourse, may demonstrate
67     IV,  VII   |           have discoursed with very rational men, who have actually denied
68     IV,  VIII  |             of others; but not as a rational creature, using them for
69     IV,  VIII  |              vegetative, sensitive, rational, may make several undoubted
70     IV,  X     |            leave with him that very rational and emphatical rebuke of
71     IV,  X     |           then, unavoidable for all rational creatures to conclude, that
72     IV,  X     |              power, choice, and all rational and wise thinking or acting,
73     IV,  XI    |           and refuse assent to very rational propositions, and act contrary
74     IV,  XII   |            but a man, accustomed to rational and regular experiments,
75     IV,  XII   |  concernment; it will become us, as rational creatures, to employ those
76     IV,  XII   |           us out the way. For it is rational to conclude that our proper
77     IV,  XII   |            satisfy the inquiries of rational men after real improvements;
78     IV,  XIV   |         perfection. It being highly rational to think, even were revelation
79     IV,  XVI   |         years since would not, to a rational man contemporary with the
80     IV,  XVI   |           to say where sensible and rational begin, and where insensible
81     IV,  XVI   |        which is the best conduct of rational experiments, and the rise
82     IV,  XVII  |           to Aristotle to make them rational, i.e. those few of them
83     IV,  XVII  |             as the great act of the rational faculty, and so it is when
84     IV,  XVII  |      knowledge; which may be called rational knowledge, as the other
85     IV,  XVII  |      immediately compared together.~Rational knowledge is the perception
86     IV,  XVII  | satisfaction in doing his duty as a rational creature, that, though he
87     IV,  XVIII |           we are ignorant, and want rational knowledge, where we want
88     IV,  XVIII |        peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes,
89     IV,  XIX   |           truth: and there is not a rational creature that would not
90     IV,  XIX   |           natural reason, or by the rational proofs that make it out
91     IV,  XIX   |             that it is a truth. For rational grounds from proofs that
92     IV,  XX    |      acquaintance with, much less a rational assent to, probabilities
93     IV,  XX    |         concernment in it, which no rational man can avoid to do sometimes:
94     IV,  XX    |            I think it is not in any rational man’s power to refuse his
95     IV,  XXI   |           himself ought to do, as a rational and voluntary agent, for