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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Wors, chat comes tothe pious Man, il he mistake, be the best chat the
iricked can actain to, illie be in the riche, Who can without madness
run the venture: Whoin his Nits rould chule eo connc within a portibi.
lits oFinfinite Misery, which it he miss, there is yer nothins to De sorby
thothazard: Whereas on the other (de, the lober Nan ventures nothing
against infinite Ilappiness to be gor, if his Expectation comes t0 pals. IF
the so0d Man be in the righi, he is eternalli hapor: it he mistakre, he
is notmiserable, he feels nothino. On the other side, iFche Wicked bein
the righe, he isnot happr: it he mistakre, he is infinitels miserable. Must
it not bea most manisest irone Judement, that docs noc prelently lec,
to rhich Cde, in this case, the preferenee is to be given. P haveForborn +0
mention any ching ol thecertaines, or probability of a luture State, de
sionins here eo Bew the vrons fudoment, thac any one must allour, he
alces, uxon his omn Principles laid hor he pleases, Who presers the sort
pleasures ol a vicious Lise upon ans consideration, Whilst he knoWs, and
cannor but be certain, that a future Lise is at least possible.
6. 46. Onder ehis simple Ldea OF Porver, I have Faken Occasion FO ex-
plain our Ideas oF Will, Volition, Liberty, and Necessity; Wrhich havine
a greater mixture in them, than belones barely to simple Modes, miplit
Perhaps, be better placed amonest the more complex. FOr Will, For ex-
ample, contains in it the Ldea ot a Pover to preterthe doins, to thenot
doins any parricular Action ((5 vice versa) trich it has thouxhton;
erhich preserence is truly a Mode of Thinkins, and sothe Ldea Wrhichthe
ord Will Aands For, is a complex and mixed one, made up ol the simmple
Ideas oE Pover, and a certain Mode oF Thinking: and etre Idea ot Li-
Berry is vet more complex, being made ux olthe Idea ot a Pover toact,
ornot to act, in contformits to Volition. Bur E hoped this transgression,
axainst the method i have propoledto my sel, Will be forsiven me, il I
trave quitted ic a little, to explain lome Ldeas of great importance; such
as are those oF the WilL Liberer, and Necessitr, in this place, Where ther,
as ie vere, Offered themselves, and sprans ux from their prOPer rOOES. Be-
Sides, having betore largels enoush instanced in several limple Modes;
tothe Wrhat I meant by them, and how theMind goc them, (For I in-
tend nOE tO enumerate alI the particular Ideas oF CacH (OTE,) these OF
Willu Liberey, and Necessity, may serve as instances of mixed Mocles,
ertrich are that sort ot Ideas I purpole next to treat ot.
5. 47. And ehus Thare, in a Mort drauxhe, siven a view ot our ori-
sinal Ldeas, trom Whence all the rest are derived, and ot which chey
are mace up; Which if P rould consider, as a Phrilosopter, and exa-
mine on What Causes ther depend, and of what they are made, I be
liere chey al misht be reduced to these rery tem primarr, and original
OnCS, ViZ.
Fxtension,
Soliditr
Mobilitys
cub Cul dentes ne reccire trom Body:
Thinkine, and the
Pover of. Moving:
 by refection e receive trom our Mincs; to Muni ne add
Existence,
Duration,
Number;
urhiet belons boch to cu ente, ante  e, ne llave, Fa,   
sinal