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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Other simple Modes.
please; Whereby if a Nan had a positire Idea oF Infinite, citter Dura-
tion or Space, he could add tuo Intinites together; nay, ake one InH-
nite insinirels bigser than another, Ablurdities too grois to be contured.
5. 2F. But yet it alter all this, there be Men iho perluade themlelves,
chatcher have clear politire comprehensive Ldeas ol Intiniey, tis sic they
enjor etieir privilese: And I Mouldbe very glad (with lome ochers that
lHnor, utio acbnomledse ther have none luch,) to be becter informed
by their Communication; For I have keen hitherro apetothinte, that FhC
Freat and inextricable Difficulties, Wtich perpetvally involve all Dis-
courses concernine Insinity, Whecher of Space, Duration, or Divisibility.
have been the cerrain martes of a defect in our Ideas of Infinier, and the
disproportion the Nature chereot has tothe Comprehention ot our nar-
ron Capaciries. For Whilst Men talke and dispute ot intinite Space or
Duration, as il ther had as compleat and posirive Ideas oF il, a5 they
have oF the Name they use For it, or ot a Yard, or oF an TTOUr, Or any
other determinate Ouantits, it is no monder il the incomprehensible
Nature of thething thez discourse os, or reason about, leac theI inEO Per-
Plexities and Contradictions, and their Mincs be overlaid by an Object E00
larse and mistuey, to be surrey ed and imanased DY FheI.
5. 22. IFThare drelt pretey lones on the Consderations of Duration,
Space, and Number; and irtrat arises trom ehe Contemplation of them.
Infiniey, tis possibls no more than the matter requires, there beins ter
simple Ldeas, Wrhole Modes sire more exereile tothe Thoushs oF Men,
than chese do. I prerend nor ro treat oP them in their tull Lacitude. it LusACeS
tomy Desion, to Meu hou the Mind receires chem, such as ther arc,
Trom sensation and Reftection: And how even the Idea we have oE Infi-
niy, hou remore loever it may leem to be trom any Object ot Sense, or
Operation ot our Mind, has neverthelels, a5 aIl our ottier Ideas, its Ori-
Sinal there. Some Mathematicians, perhaps, of adranced Speculations,
mas have ocher ays ro introduceinto their Minds Ldeas oF Innity: BUE
this hinders not but that ther themselres, as Well as alL Other Men, POL the
first Edeas cher had os Infiniey, trom Senlation and Rerection, in tlie me-
thod we have here set donn.
Il A L. AtAH.
Os ocher simple Modes.
Hmop Thave in IC ForeGDIHB CMapICIS, HIICWII HON trom
smple Laeas lareh in by Sensation, the Mind COmCS LOCKIend
its sclfevento Intiniey; Wtrick horever it mar ot all ochers lcem mOII
remote trom any senlible Perceprion, Vet at lact hathnothins in I, VuI
Wrhac is made our of simple deas, received into the MIe by the Scriles
and asterards there put tosccer, by the Faculty ehe musr hasto repeat
its own Ldeas. Thouch, Plar,  miche be instances ol enough simple
Modes ot the simple Ideas oF Scacton, and suftice eo MeW, hour the
an account os fome ser Hore, althen procecdto more complex lacus.
8. 2. ToDide, roll, tumblo, nalle, crecp, run, danco, scap, skip, alH
heare, bur erery one  erstands Enelis, has preserels in hismind
Mind comes By chiemm; Vet P Mall for Nethods labe, though brieY, sive
abundance ocher that mixht be named, are Nords Wrhich are no looner
dictinct