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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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thac it rould have been 5o0d to be
l’arthtul to a Trust, tho there had ne-
ver heen any one to Trust, or beTrust
edt: Nor doIfind that the APsertors ot
this Distinction in the Pature et Thinso
hare any real Idea ot them irore ab-
Aracted than Y have, Which will appear
in txammnns their particular Intcariceo;
l ril tare that huch the Rearker 2. R. p 26.
Sres, beins one ot the most incontect
cd Principles in Moralitr, Phat it 25 a
wicked Thins, for a Man maliciousty to Kill
his Friend, or his Father, or any other in-
nocent Person. The Truth of this, he lays,
seems to him as Clear and fternal, as
any Proposition in Mathematicks; and it
seems to me a5 Clear, that IF CaMBOt
volliblr be Concerred at all, cicher Prue
Or False, in it SelF, 2. e. Without an RC-
lation to Man. I desice any one, totry
erhether he ean Conccire it to bC au
Eternal Pruth, That tisa wicked Thine,
For a Mlanto Killhis Facher, or hisFriend,
tho therehadnerer been, or delgnd to
be, Tuch a Thins a5 Friena, Fathex, OF
Man; but Whecher he can or nOc, it Wil
CiII be a Truth as certain and immutable
25 any Proposition in Mathomaticko;
Tro Mathematician that P lnow oF, thinks
it necellary to ectablitm the imnmutabilier
OE this Pruth, That the chree Ansels
ot a Triangle, are equal to tuo Rixht
ones; 20 altirm that it is true, without
any relation to Ansels or Priansles, ei
ther ot these Provositions are lutsictent-
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