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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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The Original ot our Ideus.
Book I1.
sonine. Knowing. Willinc, and allthe different actinss oF our omn Minds;
which re beins conscious ob, and observine in our selves, do trom chele
receire into our Onderstandins, as distinet Ldeas, as re dolrom Bodies
affectins our Senses. This Source ot Ideas, every Man has Wholly in
himselF: And though it be not Sense, as having nochins to do wirh exter.
nal Objects; ret it is very likce it, and mighe properly enoush be call d
internal Sense. But aS P cali the other Sensation, (0 ICaII this R P-
FT. F C ZYON; the Ideas it affordsbeins such only, 25 the Mlind gets
by reflectins on its omn Operations ithin ic seiF. By R F F L F C TION
then in the follorins part of this Discourle, I Would be understood eo
mean, that notice erhich the Mind takes ofits omn Operations, and thc
manner ofthem, by realon Wrhereot, there come to be Ideas oFthele Ope-
rations in theVnderstanding. Thele two, I Pay, viz. External, Marerial
chings, asthe Objects OF S F NS AYTON; and the Operations ot our
omn Minds within, asthe Objects OF RF F P. FC TTOH, arc, to me, the
Oulr Originals, trom whience all our Ideas tale their beginminzs. Tlc
term Operations here, Iuse in a larse sence, as comprehendins not Barety
the Actions oPthe Mind about its Ldeas, but fome Pore oF Palsions arisine
sometimes Tromthem, such as ische larislaction or uncasiness arisins srom
ans chought.
8. 5. The Onderstanding scems tome, not to have the least glimmerins
OFanz Ldeas, irhich it doth noc receire From one of these LWo: Pternat
Objects furnis the Mind with the Ideas of sensible qualities, ertrich are
allthose different perceptions thes produced in us: Andthe Mind fur-
nispes the Onderstandine with Ideas of its oun Operations. Flele, Wtien
Wre have eaten a full surves of chem, and their several modes, and the
Compolirions made out ot chem, we Mall find to contain all our whole
Aock OF Ldeas; and that re have nochins in our Minds, Wrhich did not
come in, one ofthese trro rays. Let any one examine his omn Thougbts,
and chroushir search into his Vnderstandins, and then let him tell me
Wrhether all the original Ldeas he has there, are ans other thanof theOb.
jects oFhis senses, or oEthe Operations oF hisMind, considered as Objectsof
lis Reftection: and hoW greaE a mass oF Knomledee (oever he imaoines FO
Delodsed there, he ill, uxon tatins a Ariet vieir, sec rirat he tras not any
Idea in his Mind, but what one of those tuo have imprinted; FhousH, per-
haps, with intinite variety compounded and exlarsed, by che Vnderstan.
dins, as We Mall sec hercatrer.
S. 6. Fle that attentivelr considers the Rate OF a Child, 2t his Erst co-
mins into elie Worid, isl have litrle reason to chinte tim Rored WitH
plentr oF Ldeas, that are tobe the matrer of his future Rnomledoc. Tis
by deorees he comes ro be furnished with them: And thouchtne Ideas
of obvious and tamiliar qualities, imprint themselres, before the Memo-
rr beginsto keep a Register oF Fime and Order, Vet tis otren se late be.
fore Pome unusual qualiries come in the az, char there are ter Men that
cannor recollect the beginnine of their acquaintance wirh them: Andit
it rere vorth wrhile, no doube a Child might be so ordered, astohavetut
2 very ferr, even oE the ordinary Ideas, till He WerE GrOA UP tO a Man.
Bur being surrounded mith Bodies, that perpetually and diverits aftectus.
varietr ot Ldeas, Whether care De talren about it, orno, are imprinted
On the Minds oF Children. LichF, and Colours, are bulie and at hand every-
rhere, rhenthetre is Dut open. Sounds, and Come taneible Oualities. Fail not
tosollicite their proper Senses, and force an entrance tothe Mind; but vet
Ichinl, it Will BC granted calily, That il a Child vere hept in a place,
here henever Carr any other but Black and White, till he Were a Man,
BC