number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form:—do you understand me?
I do.
The idea is one, but the objects comprehended under it are many. Let us take any common instance; there are beds and tables in the world—plenty of them, are there not?
Yes.
But there are only two ideas or forms of them—one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.
True.
And the maker of either of them makes a bed or he makes a table for our use, in accordance with the idea—that is our way of speaking in this and similar instances—but no artificer makes the ideas themselves: how could he?
Impossible.
And there is another artist,—I should like to know what you would say of him.
Who is he?
The universal creator an extraordinary person. But note also that everybody is a