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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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HI A P.
Of Ideas in generat, and their Original.
Very Man beins consciois to hinisels, That he chintis, arid
that wrhich his Mind is omiplor d about whilst chintrine.
beins che Ldeas, thatare there, tis past doubt, thatNIen
have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are thole ex
prested by the words, Whiteness, Tlarduess, Sveetness, Thintine. Motion
Man Elephant, armo. Druntenness, and others: It is in the tirst place
then to be enquired, To hecomes by them: Ihnow it is a received Do:
Crine, Fhat Men have native Ideas, and orixinal Characters Ctamped upori
cheir Minds, in cheir very tirst beins. This Opinion P tave at larse exami
ned atreads; and, 1 suppole, What Thare said in the fore going Bool,
will be muchimore casilz admitred, when P have Mewed, Whence theVn
derstandins may set all the Ideas it has, and by wtrat vays and de:
greesther may come into ehe Mind; For irhich l Mall appeal to every
ones own Obtervation and Fxperience.
6. 2. Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as velay, Wtite Paper, void
OF al Characters, without any Ldeas; FTow comes it to be turnisted:
Whence comes it by that vast store, Wrhich the busie and Boundless Fari-
Cy oFMan has painted on ic, with an almost endless variets: Whence has
it all the materials of Realon and Knowledse: To this lansiver, in one
Word, From Fxperience: In that, all our Rnovledse is tounded; and
trom that it ultimately derires it selF. Our Oblervarion employ d citter
about external, sensible Objects; or about the internal Operarions of our
Minds, perceived and reflected on by our selves, is that, whicb supplies our
Cnderstandine s with al the materials of thinking. Fhele tro are the FOur
cains olRnonledse, trom Whenco al chc Ideas wehare, or can nacurally
tave, do sprins.
6.3. First, Our Senses, converlant about parricular, sensible Objects, do con-
vey into the Mind, several distinet Perceptions olthinss, accordiris io chole
rarious ways, Wherein those Objects doafteet them: And thus we comeby
thole Ideas, we have oFTellow Whire, LLeat, Cold, Soft, TCard, Bitter, Sueet,
and alLchole Which we call sensible qualiries. This creat Source, Of most
ot the Ldeas re have, dependins wholly uxon our senses, and derived
by themto our Onderstandins. I call S F. NS AY ION.
6. 4. Sccondly, The other Founrain, From wrhich Experience Furnisheth
the Onderstandins writh Ideas, is the Perception ofche Operations of our
oion Minds within us, as it is emplor d abour the Ideas it has gor; Whiet
Operations, when the Soul comes to reflect on, and consider, do Furnih the
Vnderstandins with anocher sett oF Ideas, Which could noc behad trom
chines vichour; and suctrare, Perception, T bintins. oubrine Believine, Rea-
sonine