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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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farther Tivent, the larzer Prospect Thad: New Discoveries led me stilt
on and so it rren insensibly to the bulk it nov appears in. Twill not deny,
but possibly it mishe be reduced toa narrower compassthan it is; and that
some Parts of ic mizhe be contracted: the vay it has been vrit in by catebes,
andminy lonz intervals of Interruption, beinz apt to cause some Repeticions.
But eoconsessthe Truth, Pam non toe lazie, or to0 busse to matie it sorter.
lam not ienorant bon lictle l berein consult my don Reputa-
tion, when Tknowingly let it ∞0 xith a Fault, so apt to discust the most
judicions, mho are alvays the nicest Readers. But they uho
Hnom Eloth is ape to contene it self mith any Fxcuse, will pardon me, if
mine bas prevailed on me, vhere, Pthink, Phave a very good one. J Will
noc therefore alledre in my Desence, that the same Notion, havins diffe-
rent Respects, may be convenient or necessary; to prove or illustrate seve
rat Paris of the same Discourse; andtbat so it bas bappened in mano
Parisofthis: But mavine that, l phall frankly avo, that I bave
sometimes diveli lonz upon the same Areument, and expressed it different
vays, vitb a quice different Design. Ipretend not to publish this Fsay
for che Information of Nen of large Thouxhes and quick apprehensions;
to such Masters of Rnomledse L prosess my self a Scbolar, and therefore
vanthem before hand not to expect anything here, but wbat beine spun
out of my con course Thouzhes, is ficted to Menof my oun size, towhom,
perhaps, it vill not be unacceptable, that P have taken some Pains tomate
plain and familiar totheir Thonehts some Truths, whieh establistred Pre-
judice, orthe abstractnessof ihe Ideas themselves, mizh: render difficult.
Some Objects had need be turned on every side; and Wben the Tlotion is
nem, as Iconsess some os chese are tome; or out of the ordinary Road;
a5 Y suspect they will appear to otbers,  tis not one simple viem of it, that
mill zain it admittance into every Understandinz, or fix it there with a
clear and lastinqe Impression. There are fem, L believe, who have not
observed in themselves or otbers, That ubat in one may of proposinz vas
veryobscure, another may of expressinq il, bas made very clear and intel.
ligible: Thoush aftermard the Nind found lictle difference in the Pbra-
ses, and vondered inhy one failed to be understood more than the otber.
But every thing does not hit alite apon every Mans Imagination. We
have our Understandines no less different thian our Palats; and he that
tbintsthe same Truth stal be equally relisted by every one in the same
dress, mayas well bope to feast every one mith the same sort os Cookery:
The Meat may be the same, and the Touristiment g00d, yet every one
not be able to receive it with that Seasoning; and it must be dressed a
nother vay, is jou wil bave it g0 donn mitli some; even of strong Constio
tutions. The Truthis, those inho advised me topublissi it, ad vised me,
for this Peason, t0 publis it as it is: and since. I have been brouebt to
let it 80 abroad, L desire il prould be under stood by mhoever sives himself
it