# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0131 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0131?run=74 # Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38) # Folio 115, page id 778263916:0131 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=778263916&page=131 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/778263916/jpgs/default/00000131.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 53 lines, status machine # Lines: 53 recognised, mean confidence 0.89 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. ecc ide le Shame WC B al uCdCIS OF the Mind, uxon the thoustt ot havine done somethins which is indecent, or Will lessen che Eeem e ralue, has not alwars blustins accompanzins it. 8. 28. Trould noc be mistatentiere, as il I meane this as a Discourse ol Ehe Passions; they are many more thanthose T have herenamed: And thole Phare tatsen notice ot, would cach ot them reguire a much larser and more accurate Discourle. L have orly mentioned theschere, a5 s0 many instances ol Modes oF Pleature and Pain resulrine in our Mincs, From va- rious Considerations ol Good and Fvil; Imighe, perhaps, have instanced in other Modes ol Pleature and Pain more simple thanthele, as the l’ain OlHTunger and Thirst, and the Pleasure ol Fatins and Drinkins. Wheri one 1s s0: l’he pain oE chetleadach, or pleasure ol rational Converlation ricti ones Friend, or discoverins ol a speculatire Fruth uxon Audy. But che Passions beins oE much more concernment to us, I rather made choicero instance inthem, and sier hon the Ideas wehare otthem, are derived trom sensarion and hellection. a d 1X Of Pover. He Mindbeins eery day informedby che Senses, oE the alie- racibr ot thole cmple Ldeas ic obserres in thines rithont, and tatrins notice hor oin coles ib an end, and ceales to be, and anoctier De gins to exist irhich was not belore; rellectins allo on what passes richin ic selt, and oblerrins 2 conltaul chanse oF its Ideas, Cometimes by theim- prestion ot outrard Objects on The Senles, and Lometimes by the determi- nation of its omn choice, and concludine trom What it has lo constant observed to have been, that the like Changes will for the future be made in the same thines, by lite Agents, and by the like ars, considers in one thins the postibilier ol havins an ot its simple ldeas changed, and in ariocher the possibiliey oF maltins that change; and lo comes bY that Idea erhich we call Pover. Thus We Car, Fire has a porver to mele Gold, i. c. t0 deltros the consictener of its insensible parts, and consequently itstrard nels, and matce it Auid; and Gold has a porver tobe melted; That the Sun has a poverto blanch Wax, and Nax a porver to De blanched by the Sun, Whereby the Vellomness is destroz d, and Whiteness made to exist in iesroom: in irtrichi, and the litre Cases, the Porver re consider is in relerence tothe chanse of perceirable Ldeas. For we cannor observe any alterationto bemade in, or operation uxon ans thins, but by the oblerrable chansc of its sensible Ldeas; nor conceire ans alteration to be made, but 6. 2. Pover thus considered is twotold, viz. as able to matre, or able to receire any chanse: Theonemas be called Actrve, and the ottier Pas- sive Pover. Whether matrer De not wholly destitute ot actire Porer, 25 its Author COD is truly above all pastive porver; and Whether the intermediate Ctate ol created Spirits be not that alone wrhich is capable oF boch actire and passire Pover, may be orth conlideration: L MaII nOE ner enter inco that enquiry, my presene bulinels beins nOE EO Search into Fhe original OF POIEr, Dut hoi We come by the Idea OE ic. Buc since aire Pouers malie so great a part ot our complex ldeas ot ra rured d. 1.