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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Perception.
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Peion, irherebs ther are diltinguithed trom perfect Insensibilier. Ard
that thiis mar be lo, e have plain instances, even in Manbind it
SelF. Pakre onc, in rhom decrepid old AgC has Blorted out theMemory ot
nis Pasc Rnomlecoe, and cleariu wiped out the Ideas his Mlina Wvas
Formeriy Atored ich; and has, by destrorine his Sight, Flcarine,
and Smeil quire, and his Faste to a ereat degree, soppd ux almost ail
the Passages fornem ones to enter: Or it there be lome ot the inlets y et
HalE OpeH, EhC Impressions made are sCarCO perCCIVed, Or NOL at aII
retained, PTOr Par such an one (notwithstandino aM that is boacted oF
innare Principles) is in his Rnomledoe, and incellectual Faculries, 2
bore the Condition ot a Cockle, or an Oyster, I lcave to De consi
dered. And if a Nan had passed Sixtr Vears in Cuch a STatC, as Tici
Possiblo he miehe, as wellas threc Days, I monder wrhrat ditterenco
there Would hare been in anz intellectual Persections, between him and
the lowest degrees of Animals.
Perception chenbeins the sirst stes and decree tonards Rnomledee, and
the intet of alt the Materials of it, the ferver Senses any Man, as vell as
ans other Creature, hath; and the ferver and duller the Imipressions are
thac aremade by them; and the duller theFacultiesare, that are employ:
ed about them, the moreremote are ther trom that Rnomledoe, irtricti
is to be found in ome Men. But this being in great variety ot DCorecs,
Casmay be perceired amonsst Men,) cannor certainsy be discovered in
the several Species oF Animals, much less in their particular Individuals.
IEsuffices me onty to hrave remartred here, that Perception is the Arst
Operation of all our intellectual Faculties, and che inlet of aII Hnowledoe
into our Minds. And I am ape ro0, to imagine, That it is Perception
inthe lorest degree of it, erhich purs the Boundaries betrreen Animals,
and the inserior rantes of Creatures. But this Imention onty as my con-
jecture by the byc, it beins inditferent totheMatter in FTand, Wrhich Way
ehe Learned Mall determine ot it.
CH AP.