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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
# Folio 286, page id 778263916:0302
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Realiey ot Lnovledge
Copies, areyet the Subicets of real (as tar as Wre have any) Rnomlecoe et
them; erhich (as has been alreads Peed) rill noc be tound torcachvery
Far: But so tar as it does, it will Aill be real Knom ledse. Whatever Ideas
re have, the Aorcement re find ther have rith others, ill Sis BC
Hnomledse. IFthose Ideas be abstract, it ill bc gencral Rnomledse.
But tomalie it real concernins substances, the Ldeas mult be tatten from
thc real existence of Things; prhatever simple Ldeas have Been Founc to
coexist in any Substance, thele e may, with contidence join togecher
again, and so matse abstract Fdeas oF Substances. Por wharever haveonce
had an union in Nature, may beunitedasain.
8. X3. This, iF werighely consider, and confine not our Thouchis and ib-
Aract Ideas +o Names, as il there rvere, or could be no otter sorts of
Thinss, chan wrhat lnown Names had already determined, and as it vere
TEE OUE, ve Mould think oF Things with greater frecdom and less consu-
Tion, chan perhaps wo do. Fvould postibly be thoushe a bold Paradox, it
HOE a very danserous Falood, it PMhould lay, that some Chansclings;
Wrho hare lived torer vearstogether, ithout any appearance ot Realon,
are omethine betreen a nan and a Beast: Which prejudice is founded
upon nothinq else buc a false suppolition, that these tiro Names, Man
and Beast, Sand For distinct Species (0 set out by real FSences, that there
con comeno other Species vetreen them: Whereas il re rill abstract
from those Names, and the Supposirion of tueh specifick F. Penices made
by Naturo, Wherein alt Things of the Came Denominations did exactly
and equally parcalce; is we vouldnor tansie, that there ere a certain
number of chole Fssences, Wherein allThinss, as in Molds, ere cast andtor-
med, We Mould snd that the Idea ofthe Strape, Motion, and Lite oF a Man
wichiout Reason, is as much a distinct Idea, and mabes as much a dictinct
Port ol Thinestrom Nan and Beast, as the Idea of the Shrape ol an AIS
rith Reason, rould be different trom cither that ot Man or Bealt, and
be a Species ot an Animal betreen, or distinct lrom both.
8. 24. FIoro every Body ill be ready to astr, il Changelines ma bc
supposed somothine betreen Nan and Beast; Pray irhat are they: V
anliver, Chancelines; irhich is as good a Word to lignitie Lomething
difterent trom the sixnitication oE M AW on B P AST, aS the Names
Han and Bealt are to have signitications difterent onc trom the other.
Fhis, trell considered, vould resolve this matter, and Mer my meanine
wirtiout any more ado. But I am not (0 unacquainted wich che
Zealot lome Men, Which enables them to spin Consequences, and to see
Religion chreatned irhenerer any one ventures to quit tneir Formsof
Speaking, as not to sorelce What Names such a Proposition as this is like
to be charged itk: And rithout doubt ic rill be askred, IE Changelings
are lomethins beteen Man and Beast, irhat will become of them in the
Ortior Worid : lPo Wrhich Tansiver, T. IE ConcernS me nOt to KnOW or
enguire. Totheir omn Master chey Aand or FalI: It ill malie their cate
neither berter nor vorse, Wrhether e determine anr thing of it, or no:
They are in the hands ol a Paiehtul Creator and a bountitul Father, Who
disposes not ofhis Creatures accordins to our narror Thoughs or Opi-
nions, por distinguisres elem accordinq to Names and Species oF OuF C On-
erivance. And we that Hnow so lictle of this present Worid Weare in, mar,
Tehinte, Content our sclres without being peremprory, in definins the
ditterent Bate Creatures Ball come into, Wrtren cher s0 oA this Stage.
IE May sustieo us, that hehach mace knorn to all thole, Wrho are capable
os Tnltruction, Discourso, and Rcasoning. that they Mall come eo an ac-
coune, and receive accordins r0 what ches have done in Eliis Bod7.