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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Noinnate practicat Principles.
be convinced ofcheir Obligation. Others also may come iobe oF the same
Mind, From their Fducation, Company, and Customs of their Country;
ertrich Persvasion hovever eot, wilt serve to set Conscience on mork, Wrtrict
is nochins elle, but our omn Opinion of our omn Actions. And il COn
Science be a Proof ot innate Principles, contraries mar be innare Prinei-
ples: Since some Men, Wich the lame bent of Conscience, prolecute what
Others avoid.
8. 9. Buc Tcannot sec hor any Men Tould ever transeress thole Morat
Rules, with Considence, and Serenity, ere they innate, and Ctamped upon
their Minds. Viem but an Army at thesackins ot a Town, and sec WwlraE
Oblerrations, or Sense of Moral Principles, or Wrhat touch of Consci-
ence, For all the Outraces ther do. Robberies, Murders, Rapes, arcthe
Spores of Men set at Liberer trom Punitiment and Censure. Havethere
not been Wrhole Nations, and those oF the most civilized People, amonest
wrtrom, che expolins cheir Children, and learinq them in the Ficlds, to pe-
rim by NVant, or Wild Bealts, has been the Practice, as little condemned
Or (crupled, as the becettins them: Do they noc Rill, in lome Couri-
tries, put them into the same Graves Writh their Mothers, il ther die in
Child. Birth; Or dispateh them, il a pretended AArologer declares them
to have untrappr Stars: And are there not Places, Wrhere at. a certain
Age, ther Hill, or expole cheir Parents withour any remorle at aII: In a
Part oF Asia, the Sick, When their Casc comes to De thoughe desperate,
are carried out and laid on the Farch, belore thes are dead, and lete there,
(2) Gruber a. exposed eo Wind and Weather, to perish ithout AMistance or Pity. (∞) le
pud Therenot, is Familiar amonest the Mengrelians, a Pcople professino Christianity, eo
vart 4. V. L3
(B) Lambert. Bury cheir Children alive without scruple. (B) There are Places iwhere
apua There. ther eat their omn Children. (V) The Caribes vere wont to seld cheir
noL, D. 38.
2) Voltiis de Children, on purpose totat and eat them. (M) And Carsilasso de la Veca
Viliormel. Tells us oFa People in Perus Wrhricle lvere wont to fat and eat cheir Chil-
dren ther sOc on their female Caprires, rhich ther Kepe as Concubines
For that Purpose. (E) The Virtues, Whereby che Lououpinambas believed
Ce) Tesdes . Chef merited Paracile, vere, Revense, and carine abundance of their F-
cas, l. 1. C. 12. nemies. (3) Ther have norso much a5 a Name For God, Lery pac. 276.
No Achnomledoient of any God, no Relision, no Worctip, pac. 27T.
The Saints, Who are canoniz d amonos the Lurtes, lead Lives, Wrhich one
canrior Wich Modesty relate. A remarhable Pastase to this Purpose, out
OF the Voyase os Baumearten, Whieltis a BoOlc, not everr Dar to be met
ich, PMall set dornat larse, in the Languase it is publistred in. Ib
(Sc. proxe Belbes in AGYDEO) vidimus sanctum unum Saracenicum inter a
renarum cumulos, ita ut ex urero matris prediit nudum sedentem. Mos est.
ut didicimus Mahomerictis, ut eos, qui amentes (s sine ratione sunt. pro Canctis
colant (5 venerentur. Insuper Cs eos qui cum diuvitam ecerint inquinatissimam,
voluntariam demum paenitentiam (5 paupertatem, Sanctitate venerandos de
putant. Fjusmodi vero genus hominum libertarem quandam effraenem habent,
domos quas volunt intrandi, edendi, bibendi (5 quod majus est, concumbendi;
ex quo concubitu, si proles secuta fuerit, sancta similiter habetur. Ilis ergo
hominibus, dum vivunt maenos exhibent honores; mortuis vero vel templa
vel monumenta extruunt amplisima eosqe contincere ac sepelire maximae fortus
nae dueunt loco. Audivimus haec dicta (5 dicenda per interpretem à Mucrelo
nostro. Insuper sanctum illum, quem eo loci vidimus, publicitus apprime com-
mendari, eum esse TTominem Canctum divinum ac interritate praecipuum, eo
quod, nec faminarum unquam esset nec puerorum, sed rancummodo asella-
rum concubitor atque mularum. P’ereer. BauMSarEeH, l. 2. C. F.. p. 73. Where
chen are chose innare Principles, ol sultice, Piery, Gratiude, Equity,
Chactuy:
18. 19.
6) P. MarE.
Dec. 1.
15) Lery, cot e
Book I.