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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Morat Relation.
ale Nords, Candine For Relations, is nothins but fome limple Ideas, or
Collections ot simple Ideas, compared one with anocher. This is (0 mani
felt in that Cort called proportional, that nothine canbermore. For when
2NTan Cay5, Foney is (reeter chan Wax, it is plain, that his Thouglts in
ehis Relation, terminate in chis simple Ldea, Sircetness, Whieh is equally.
true oFall the rest; thouoh, wrhere ther are compounded, or decom-
pounded, the simple Ldeas they are made up oF, are, pertraps, seldom ta-
ben notice oF. v. 8. Whenthe Nord Father is mentioned: First, There
is meant that particular ot. Species or collectire Idea, Signified
by the Word Man; Secondly, Thole sensible simple Ideas, signitied
by the Word Generation; And, Thiraly, The FHects oF it, and
all the simple Ldeas, Signihed by the Word Child. S0 the Word Friend,
beins talsen for a Man, irho loves, and is reads to do sood ro another,
has all chose Follorrins Ideas tothe makins oF it up. First, aII ttre sim
Dle Ideas, comprehended in the Nord Man, or intelligent Being. Se-
condiy, the Ldea oFLove. Thirdly, The Idea oF Readinels, or Dispostion.
Fourchly, The Idea oF Action, Wrhich is any kind of Thouoht, or Motion.
Fifchli, Thc Idea Ot Ciood, Which lionities auy thino that may advance
his Flappiness; and terminates at last, is examined, in particular lim
Dle Ideas, Ot which the Nord Good in general, signities any one; but il
removed trom all simple Ldeas quite, it lignities nochins at aII: And thus
als0, allMoral Words terminate at last, thoushu, perhaps, more remoteli
in a Collection oF simple Ldeas: the immediare signitication oF Relative
Words, beins very olten ocher suppoled hnomn Relations; Wrhich, il tra-
ced one to anocher, sill end in simple Ideas.
5. 29. Secondly, Fhat in Relations, we have FOr the most part, il nOE
alirays, as clear a Notion of the Relation, asve have of those simple Ideas
Wherein it is founded: Acreement or Dilagreement, Whercon Relation
depends, beins Thinss, Whereofre hare commonly as clear Ideas, as oF
ans ocher wtatloerer: it beins butthe distinguittins simple Ldeas, or
their Deorees one trom another, without which, re could have no di
Stinct Hnomledse at all. For if Phave a clear Idea OF Svectness, Light,
Or Lxtension, Thare too, of equal or more, or lels, of cach ot these: II.
bno Wrhat ic is For one Nan io be born of a Woman, viz. Sempronia, 
lnor what it isfor anocher Mtan to beborn ot thelame Woman, Sempro-
nia; and so have as clear a Norion of Brothers, as oF Births, and, perhaps,
clearer. lor if l beliered, that Sempronia disged Zirus out olthePariler.
Bed, (as ther usc totell Children,) and thereby became his Mottier; and
chac alcerrards in the same manner, Me dissed Cajus out ot the Parller.
Bed, Phad as clear a Notion oF the Relation OF BrOFherS BCEVCCH FheMm, a5
if Ihad all the Still of a Midrite; theNorion that the samC Woman COn
tributed, as Mocher, equally to their Births, (thoushr P evere ignorant, or
mistaken in themanner ot it,) beins that on irhich I grounded the Rela-
tion; and that thes agrecd inthat Circumstance of Birth, let it be wtrat
it rill. The comparins them then in their descent tromthe Tame Person,
Wrichouc hnorins the particular Circumstances of that descent, is enous
to found my Nocion ot thcirhavins, or not havine the Relation oF BrO-
thers. But thouxh the Ideas ot particular Relations, are capable of being
as clear and distinct in ehe Minds oF those, who ill duls consider them,
as those of mixed Modes, and more determinate than thole oF Subltances;
vec the Wames belongins to Relation, are olten of as doubrtul, and in-
certain Signification, as thole os substances, or mixed Modes; and much
more than those ot simple Ldeas. Because Relatire Words, beins the Marlis
oschis Comparison, Wlietis madte ontus by Wens Fhonelilo, and is an
Idea