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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
# Folio 355, page id 778263916:0371
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8
Vrone Assent
5. 5. Secondly Those Eat vant sRill ro use those Fvidences theyhav
ot Probabilicier, that cannor carry a train o Consequences in cheir Heauls,
or reich exacy chepreponderanes et contrars Prooto anci Teltimonics
mattine every Circumstance irs ciue altorrance, may be casils milled to
aEenE Co PoSitions chat are nor probable. Fhere are some hen oF One,
lome but ol trro Syllosims, and no more; and ottiers chat ean bue ad
vance onestep Farther. These cannor alivars discern that Cide on Whicl
ehe Sronsest Prools lic, cannor constanty tollon chac crhich in ies self is
chemore probable Opinion. Now chat chere is fuehr a difterence between
Men, in respect ol their Onderstandings, P ehink no body rill quection,
rtiohas had any Conversation with his Neiohbours, though ne never
WVas aE Westminster- FTaW Or the Pxchance on elio one hand, nOr aC ALNS-
FTouses Or Bealam on the ottier; Wrhich great difference in MenS InFel
lectuals, Whecher itriles fromany delect in che Organs oE the Body, par-
ticularlr actapeed ro Thinkine, or in che dulness or untractableness ofthole
Faculties, for ant oluse; Or, as lone tinkh, in tuenatural disterences ol
Nens Souls chemselves, or some or all ol thele tOgetHer, IE IAEterS NOE
here to examine: Only this is evident, that there is a disterence ot de
grees in mens Understandinss, Apprehentions, and Reasoninzs, 1050
Great a latirude, chat one may, rictioue doing injury eo Mankind, aftirm,
chiat there is a freater distance betveen lome Men and orliers in this re
spect, than Betreen some Men and fome BeaAs. But Bou chis COICS
about, is Speculation, thoush ol great consequence, yet not necessary t0
our prelent purpose.
9. 6. Thiraly, Lhere are anorher Pore of People that want Proofs, not becauie
tHCY arE OUE OE Cheir reach, Dut because they will not use them: Who
thouxh ther have Riches and leisure enouslu, and iant neixher PaIES nOr
Fearnine, mar, vet chrouch their hor pursuit of Plcature, or Pulincls, or
else out of lazinels or fear, chat the Doctrines, ertiose Fruch ther Mould
enquire into, ould noc suit ell rith their Opinions, Lires, or Deligns,
may never come to the knomledge of, nor sive their ANenE EO those PrO:
babilicies Which lic so much within cheir view, that to be convinced ot
them, ther need but turn their Fres ThaLWaY: But WeKnon LOme Men
rill not read a Letter, Which is supposed ro bring ill ners; and many
NTen Forbear eo Cast up cheir ACCOMPIS, Or (o much as chinkE uxon cheir
Filtates, erho have reason eo fear their AAairS are nOF in a verv s00d po.
Aure. FTo Ben, tiose plentitul Fortunes allow them leiture 1o iri-
prove their Ondlerstandines, can Patissie themlelres with a lazy ignorance,
TCannOE telI: But methinkscher have a lon Opinion of cheir Souls, W10
lar out all their Incomes in Provisions tor the Body, and employ none
et it to procure tho Means and FTelps ol Anoivledee; Wrhro talco sreat
care to appear alrars in a neat and splendid ourlide, aud vould chinte
chemselres miserable in course Cloaths, or a patched COar; and V et COn
Eentedr sufter their Minds to appear abroad in a pie. Dald Liverr os course
Datelies, and Borromed Shreds, such as it has pleased Chanco, or their
Connerr. Failor, Imean che common Opinion ot thole chey have conver.
sed witli, to cloath them. P Will noc heremention hor unreasonable chis
is For Ben ehar ever think oF a future state, and their concernment in it,
Wvhich io rationat Man can avoid to do sometimes: nor MaIII tale notice
ertrat a strame and consution it is, co ehe sreacest Contemmers of RBOW.
ledse, to be tound ignorant in Thines ther are concerned iO HnOW. B It
this, Ae least, is rorch the consideration of those wtro calL chemselves
Genlemen, Tharhoreverther may chinte Credit, Respect Porer, and
auchorits che Concomicanis oE elicir Birch and Forurne, yer chey will
find