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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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verned bythe end ot Specc General Certrich is a very Mort and expe
dite ray ocenres aur Thoustus one to another) is evident in the
Names, irhich in several Aris have been tound out, and applicd to leveral
complex sdeas o moditied Actions, Belonsins to their several Trades, for
disparch lalre, in their Direction or Discourses about them: Whieh Ideas
are not generally tramed in the Minds ot Men nor convertant about thele
Operations; and thence the words that stand For them, by the grearest
part otMen ol the lame Languase, are not undortood; V. 8. Coltser-
Orillins, Filtration, Cohobation, are words andins For cerrain complex
Ideas; ertich beins not in the Minds ofevery bod, ther havins no ule
Ofthem, thole names olthem are noc generally underHood bur by Smiths.
and Chimists; Who tavins Framed thecomplex Ideas irtich chese rords
Sandfor, and havins siven names to them, orreccivedthem trom others
upon hearins ol thele names in communication, readils conceive thole
Ideas in their Minds; as by Cohobation allthe simple Ldeas oF Dictillins.
and thepourins the Liquor, distilled froin any thine, back upon the re-
mainins Matter, and distillins itagain. Thus we see, that there are great
varieties oF simple Ldeas, as ot Tastes and Smells, Which have no NamCSi
and ofModes mans more; irhich cither not havins been generally c
nough obserrec, or elle not beins otany great ule to be talen notice ot
in the ACairs and Converse oFMen, they have not had names siven to
ihem, and (o pals not Por Species, Whieh ire Mall have occasion hereaster
eo conlider more at larse, when e comero speak of Nords.
C HI A P. XIX.
Of the Modes of Thintine.
JHen che Minee turus ies vier invards upon its sels, and
contemplates its omn Actions, Thinking is the tirct chat
Occurrs; Wherein it obserres a great variet of Mlodifications, and there-
OE trames to it self distindt Ideas. Thus ehie Perception, or Thousht,
irtrich actualls accompanz, and is annexed to anx impression on the BO.
dy. made by an external Object, it trames a distinct Idea oF, Wwhich We
Call sensation; Wtichis, as it vere, the actual entrance ot ariy Idea into
the Onderstanding by the Senses. The same Idea, irhen it again recurrs
without the operation of the likre Object onthe eternal Senlory, is Remem-
brance. IF it be sought alter by the Mind, and rith pain and endeavoue
Tound, and brouehe again in rieu, tis Recollection: IFit be held chere lone
under attentive Consideration, tis Contemplation. When Ideus Aoat in
our Mlind, mithout any reflection or resard of the Understanding, it is
that rhich the French call Resverr; our Lanouase has scarce a name For
it. When the Ideas that oHer themselves, (For a5 lhare obserred in ano-
ther place, irhrilst e are atrakce, there will alvazs be a train of Ideas
succccdinss onc anocter in our Minds,) arc taleen notice ot, and, as it
ere, resistred in thie Memorr, it is aetention. Whenthe Mind with
sreat carnestress, arid of a choice, txes its viem on any Idea, considers it
On all Sides, and Will nor De Called off by the ordinary Lollicitation ot other
Ideas, It is thatre cal Intention, or Srudy. Sleep, without dreamins, i5
rest trom all chese; and Dreamine it selF, is the perception of Ideas (Whils
che oucuard denles are Rorp d, (0 chat chey receire not ouward Obietts
victa
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