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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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Rice, Rands For Fomethine that e dont
dnom, irhich is Fvil; untels it will be
Paid that rre may lnow it to be a de-
tamme any omes Rieht, rithout linou-
ins wrhat Richt is, irhich vill bea very
intisniticant Knowledgo: But it the Re-
marker means that as toon a5 he lnorro
wrhat it isto have a Riche to a Thuns, he
perceives, that to detam From a Man Wrhiat
he has such a Rioht to, is Pvil, without
any Farther Reflection, I understand lim,
Dut sec not hor it can be objectedasainst
the Force oF MIr. LochS principles, beine
ouly a perception of the dilaercement
ot thele tro Ideas, ot one Mans hr-
vine a Rishe to a Thine, and anothers
havins a Rieht totakce it aray: But this
oulr by the mar.
Let us nou Consider that For irhich
tus Tudden preception withont Ratio.
cination i5 broushe a5 a PcOOL, VIZ.
Phat the Grounds of the Diltinction ot
Nloral Good and Fvil, is in the Nature
of the Things themselves, abstraet From the
ood oF Societr; Wrhich is that he can-
not inatre ont trom MIr. LocleS Principles.
Fy wetrich Distinction in the Hature ot
Phinss, it he means that withont respect
to Men, or to Societr, tho Mankind
had never Been, or never been desien e,
ustice, Gratitude, Fidelier, 6c. bad
been Crood, and their contraries Pvil:
IContels my selt incapable ot havine
a Notion ot these Vertues abstract From
unu subseet, to conccire. For Frample.
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