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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Chap. VII. Ideas of Sensation and Reflection
duced hy the same Objects and Ideas, that produce Pleasure in US. This
thcir near Conjunction, which makces us olten feel pain in the sensations
irherere expected pleature, sires usnem occasion of admirins theWisdoni
and Goodness of our Maker, wrtio delienins the preserration ot our
Beino, has annexed Pain to the application ofmany thinos to our BO-
dies, to arn us ofthe harm ther willdo, andas adrices to wictidra tront
Fliem. Buc hC, nor delignins our preservation barely, but the prelervati
on ofevery part andorsan inirs pertection, hatli, in many cales, annexed
pain tothese verr Ldeas irtrich delisHFuS. Thus Fleat, that is very agrCC
able to us in ore desree, by a licile greater increase of it, provesnoordina
er tormentiand she mostplealane oF all sensble Obiecrs; Lislit ic selG, itthere
be too much oFit; il increaled berond a due proportion t0 oux FyCS,
caules a very painful sensation. Which is wiseli and farourably so order-
ed by Nature, That When âtiy Object does, by the vehemence ot its opera-
tion, disorder the instruments of sensation, irtiose Structures carinot but
De verr nice and delicate, we mishu by the pain, be warned eo WrithdraW,
Detore the Organ be quite put out of order, arid (0 DC unAeced FOr IES pro.
per sunctiorstor the futuré. The consideration of those Objects that pro
duce ic, may ell Persrade us, That this is the end or use oF pairi. FOr
thoush sreat lighe be insufterable to our Pres, vet the hishest degree ot
darkenels does nor at all dileale thiem: Decaule thar causins no dilorderly
morion in il, leares that curious Organ unharm d, in its natural stare.
BuF Vet exeoss oF Cold; as Well as FTeat, pains us: becaule it is equalr de
Structire to thac temper, Which is necessaris to the preserration ot lite, and
the exereise oFthe several functions oF theBodY, which consilts in a mo-
derate degree ol Warmeti; or, il rou pleale, a motion ol che irisensible
Pares otour Bodies, contined within certain bounds.
5. 5. Berond all chis, e may find driother reason whi Jod hath scat:
tered up ad doun severat derrees of pleasure and pain, in all the thines
that environ and affect us; and blended them together, in almost all FhEE
our Thonohes and senles have to do ith; that e findino impertecti
on distatisfaction, and ant of compleat happinels, in all the Enjorments
ofthe Creatures ean aftord us, mighe be led eo secke it in the enjoyment
oFtim, with whom there is fulness ofjor; and at whose rieht hand are plea-
sures for evermore.
6. 6. Thoush erhat T have here Paid, maz not, pertiaps, makce the Ideas
of Pleasure and l’ain clearer to us, than our own Experienee docs, rhich is
the orly ray that e are capable of havins them; y et the consideration
oF che Realon, Wrhy cher are annexed to lo mans other Ideas, servine to
sive us due sentiments of the Wisdom and Croodnels ofthe SoveraignDil.
Poler oF aII Thinss, mas not be unsuitable to the main end ol thele en-
quiries: The lnomledse and veneration of FTim, beinq the chiet end ot
aIl rur Thoushes, and the proxer buliness of all Inderltanding5.
8. 7. Existence and Dnitr, are tro otlier Ideas, that are luogelted to
the Onderstandins, by every Object rithout, and every Idea ithin.
Whien Ldeas ere in our Minds, e consider them as beins actualli there,
25 WelI as re consider things to be actually without us; erhich is, that
ther exist, or have Existence: And wtiatever e can consider aS onc
chins, whiether a real Beins, or Idea, susgets to the Understandins.
the ldea OF nity.
5. 8. Fover allo is another ofthose simple Ldeas, hich Wre receire fro
Sensation and Reftection. For obserring in our selres, that We do, and can
chink; and that e can, ar plealure, move sereral parts ot our Bodies
urhichrere at rest; che eRecto also, chat natural Bodies are able 10 pro-
aVCC