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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Modes of Thinking.
arith cheir ulual quickneS,) in the Mind, not luesested by any external
Opiects. or lnoon occation; nor under any Choice or Conduet of the
Onderstandins at aIl; arid Whether that wrtich e calI Fxtasie, DC NOF
dreamine rith the fres open, I leare to be examined.
6. 2. Fhele are lomeser instances ofthole rarious Modes of thintinc, Which
the Mind may obserre in it selF, and (0 frame as distinct Ideas Ot, a5 it
does oF Whiro and Red, 2 Square or a Cirele. I do not pretend eo enume.
rate them all, nOr to treat et larse ol this set ot Ideas, Wrhich are gOF
trom Reflection, that ouldbe ro make a Volume. It luffices tomy pre
sent purpole, eo have Mewn here, by some sew FXamples, oF What sorE
those Ideas are, and hou the Mind comes by them; especially since 
Pall hare occasion hercaster to treat more at laroe ot Reasonine, Fudeine.
Volition, and Rnouledee, Which are lome of the most considerable Opcra-
tions of the Mind, and Modes oF thinbing.
5. 3. BuE, perhaps, it may not De an unpardonable Digression, nor
evhollr impertinene to our prelent Delion, ifire reflect here uxon ihe dif-
ferent State of the Mind in thinkine; Wrhichchole instances oF Attention
Resvery, and Oreaming, (5c. Delore mentioned naturally enough sugrest.
Thatthere are Ideas, Lome or other, alvars present in the Mind et a Wa-
Kins Man, every ones Experience convinces him; thouoh the Mlind em
Plors it selt about them ith several degrees ot Arrention. Sometimes
the Mind sixes it selE trith so much carnestness on the Contemplation ol
Tome Objects, that ic turns cheir Ideas on all Ades; remartes their Rela-
tions andCircumstances; and viens every part sonicelr, and with such in
tention, thac it Murs out all ocher Thoustus, and talres no norice ot the
ordinary Imprestions made then on the Senses, Wrhich at anocher Scalon
rould produce verr sensible Perceptions: At other times, it barelr ob-
serres the train of Ideas that succeed in the Vnderstandine, without di
rectins and pursuins ans ofthem: And at othier times, it lers ehem pass
hnost quire unrexarded, as faint pados that makre no Impression.
5. 4. This difterence ot intention, and Remission of the Mind inthinkins.
rith a great rariets of Degrees, between carnest scudy, and verr negr
minding nochin at all, Fivery one, Pthink, has exporimented in him-
SelF. Frace it a lictle farther, and rou find themind in Slcep, retired as it
ere From the Senses, and out oFche reach oF those Motions made on the
Orsans of Sense, Wrhichat ocher times produce very vivid and sensible
Ideas. Inced nor, For this, instance in thole, Who Acep out whole ctormy
Hliglus, wichour hearins the Thunder, or sccins the Lichenins, or tce
insche akins oE the HTouse, Wrhich are sensible enough to thole who are
akine. Buc in this retirement of cheMind trom the Senses, it Osten retains
avet more loole and incoherent manner of thinkcing, Which rre calt Drea-
mine, and lastoF all sound Slcep closes the Scone quire, and purs an end to all
Appearances. This Pthink almost everr one has Experience oF in him.
TelE, and his omn Obserration ithout difticults leads hum thus tar. That
Wrtrich P vould Farther. conclude trom henco is, That since the Mind can
sensibly Dut on, at several times, several dcorees ol Thinkins; and besome
times eren in a ralins Nan (0 remiss, as to hare Thoughes dim and ob.
scure to that deoree, that thes are verr little removed trom none at all;
aud at last in the dark retiremienes of Cound Slcep, loles che sight perfect.
IV OF all Edeas What(Oever: Since, I lav, ehis is cvidentr (0 in Matter ot
Fact, and constant fxperience, l astr Whether it be noc probable, that thint-
insis the Action, and not ihe Fsence of the Soul: Since the Operarions
Ot Agents Willeasily admit of intention and remistion; but the FPences oF
chines, ale cecired capable ot aux such rariation. But this by che
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