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# Title: A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 3; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 3)
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A
ertich are oE greatest Concern ID uS,
Wvhich Idorbe not to do, it beine clear
to me, that Wrhaterer re can kno at all
usE DC discoverable bY Mr. LockS Prin
ciples; For l cannot find any other ras
tolnorledse, or that re have anr one
Idea not derired From Senlation and Re.
Aection. But let us sec hou thole points
inar De establistid on them, For wtrich
the Remarter doubts their Force; and
Airst oF Noralier, or Natural Religi
On ot wrtrich, he thus Degins:
. 4. Asto Moraliey, me thint the sreat Foun-
dation of il is the distinction of C0od and
Fivil. Viriue and Vice. And I de
not find that my Fres, Fars. Nostrils or
any other ontward senses, mate any distinction
of thesethines, as they do ofColours, Sounds,
8cc.- Nor from any Ideas tahen in from
them, or fromtheir Reports, am I Conscions
that Id., or can conclude that there 25 such
a distinction in che Nature of things. Tr
2. X. p. 8. Wvhrich WOrds, he Pays, he thouett he hact
tatien in cnoueh to comprehend both
MIr. LocteS Principles ot Knowlecee, sen
Parion and Reftection, Wrhich I Bould not
have thouptit, but since he omns hre de-
siend them to do s0, re will suxpolo
boch exprest, and proceed rith hun.
allom that me may infer from Observation
arid Reason that such a distinction 25 use
ful to Scciety, but both Philosophers and Di
vines, vou lnom mate a more immutable
and intrinsicl. Distinction, Wohich is that 
ccint malee out from pour Principles