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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Reader,
Flere put intothi Flands, Wuhat has been the diversion of some of
myidle audheavy FTours: I it hasthe g0od luck to prove se of
any ofthine, and thou hast but half so much Pleasure in readinz
as Thad in ioritinque it, thou wilt as little chink thy Noney, as I do
iny Pains ill bestoved. Wistake not this, for a Commendation of my
Work; nor conclude, because lvas pleased with the doins of il, that
theretore Tam fondly taken mith it nov it is done. Fe that hawts at
Larks and Sparroins, basno less Sport, thoueh a much less considerable
Ouarry, thanhe that Ries at nobler Game: And he is licele acquainted
ith ihe Subject os this Treatise, the U NDE RST A NDIN C,
ubo does not hnom, that as it is the most elevated Faculty of the Soul
soit is employed mih a greater, and more constant Delight ihan any of
the otber. Irs searches aster Truth, are a sort of Flawkinq and Tlun-
ting, vberein ehe very pursuit mates a great part of the Pleasure.
Fveri step. the Mind tates in its Procress towards Lnovledee, mates
Discovery, Wbichis not onlynem, but the best t0o, for thetime at least.
For the Understandins, like te Fge, judeing of Objects, only by
ilsoron Sirht, cannot but be pleased vith what it discovers, bavine
less regret for ihat lias scaped it because it is utnODI. Thus he
2vbo bas raised bimsels above the alms-Basket, and not content
tolive lazili on scraps of begr d Opinions, sets bis onn Tbonebes on
vork, to find and follom Truch, vill (whatever he lichts on) not
missthe Flunters Sacisfaction; every moment of his Pursuit, mil
remard bis Pains with some Delisht; aud be will have Reason to thinte his
rime not il spent, even when he cannot much boast of any oreat Acquisirion.
This, Reader, is the Entercainment of those, vho let loose their
onn Prousbes, and follon them in vritins; Which chou ouxbtest
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