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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Dut ic is only in particular Pdeas, just as ther receir dthem tromtheir Senles
Therare the best of them tied up richin thole narrom bounds, and hare
not (a5 I chink) the Paculcy to enlarse them by any bind ol abstra
ction.
6. T2. FTOW Par Idiors are Concerned in the want: or ealinels ol any
Or all of the foresoins taculties, an exaet obserration ot thoir leveral
Wars ot talterine, ould no doubr dilcover. For thole lio citherpei-
ceire but dullr; or retainthie Ideas that come into their Minas, Dursill.
Wrho cannot readily excire or compound them, will have little macter to
chinte on. Those irho cannor dictinsuish, compare, and abAract, rould
hardly be able co understand, and make usc ot Languase, or judze, ox
realon eo any tolerable deoree; bur orly a litele, and impertecty, about
thines prelent, and very Familiar ro their Seriles. And indeed, anr ol ele foren
mentioned Faculties, il antine, or out otorder, produce suitable desecto
in BIens Onderstandinos and Rnowledoe.
5. 23. Infine, The delect in Naturals, sCemS tO proceCd FrOt ane ot
quieknels, actirier, and motion, in the intellectual Paculties, Whereby
cher are deprired of Reason: Whereas mad Men, on the ocher Cidoz lecim
toluster by the ocher Lxtream. For ther do notappear to me rohare lost
the Faculer of Reasonins: but havins joined rogether lome Taeasiverr
eronolr, ther mistate them for Fructs; and ther err as Men dos thae
arguerishit trom vrons Principles. For by cheviolence oF chicir Imagi
nations, havins cakcen their Pansies for Realities, ther make ripht dedu
ction Fromthem. Thus ou Mall find a distracted Nan phanszine him
selFa Ring, irith a riglu inference, reguires luitable Atcendance, Respect,
and Obectience: Orhers trho trave thouohe themselres made ot glals
have used che caution necestars to preserve luchbrietle Bodico. Hlence it
COmeS tO PaSS, that aMan, Who is venz lober, and oF a right Vnderstan-
dins in all other things, may in one particular, be as trancicle as anz in
Bealam; il cither by anx sudden very Arone imprection, or lono tixins
his Faney uxon one sort of Thoustus, incoherent Ideas havo been ce-
mented cogether (o porvertully, as to remain united. But there are de
orces oFMadness, as oF FOIIY; the disorderls jumblins Ldeas WogotHer, is
in somemore, and some lels. In More, Herein seems to lie the ditterence
vetween Idtiors and mad Mon, That maci Men pur irong Ideas tope
cher, and (o make errons Propolitions, bur argue and realon ristie from
them: Buc Idiors matce vers ser or no Provoliions, and reason scarce
aE aII.
6. T4. These, L thintcare the Arst Faculties and Opcrations oftheMind,
Wvhich it akces ule ot in understandino; Which thouoh ther are exerciled
about all ies Ideas in general; zet the instances, l have hitherto siven,
have been chiestr in simple Ideas; and I have subjoined the explication
OF these Faculties olthe Mind, to that ot simple Ideas, betore Pcome t0
irhat Lhave co lay, concernins complex ones, for these follomins Rea.
TOnS:
First. Becaule several oP these Faculties beins exerciled at Arst princi
Pally about simple Ideas, We mishe, by sollorrine Nature in its ordina-
ry method, trace and dilcorer ehem in cheir rise, proerels, and gradual
IPPOVCMENES.
Secondy. Becaule obterrino the Faculties oF our Mind, hou they ope-
rate about simple Ldeas, wrhrich are usvally in most Mens Minds, muct
more clear, precise, and distinet, than complex ones, ne may the better
examine and leaen hor the Mind abstracts, denominates, compares, and
exerciles its other Opcrations, abour thole whieh are complex, Whereim
ve are muctimore liable to mistale.
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