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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)
# Folio 33, page id 797937889:0045
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BuFiE the Remarker ThinkS, that iF aII
our thoustusceate in Tound SlecD, aIl oux
Ideas are extinct, and must Be ner im-
prest; l delire him to consider, wten a
Slcepins or Wakins Manthinks, what De-
comes of ail thole Ideas irhich he does
nOt actu olY perceire in his oun minc
For themind is capapable ot takcine norice
BuEOi very ler ac Once: M SF nOF aII thC
rest by thi: Areument be extinet: And 10
We inust hare tnem nem imprett; and arc
a5 it vere, Neir Born When ever we havo
any Ideas rhich we hare not alvays
actually perceir d, i. e. erery time we pass
From one thonont to anorher. This is a
fure Contequence, it when aIl our
thoushes cealo, ail our Idcas must DC nem
imprest, unless a Man con d actually per-
cerre aIthe Ideas he erer had at Once; FOr
hris havins only one chouohe in his mind
Can AO more Kecp anv otner therC, OF CX-
cite ans other that it hias no connerion
with, than il he had no thoushe et all:
e
am thinkins for ExampIe, in my Steo
OF a Htorse; his Beaurr, Strensth, and
Usetulness: Does this thoushe preserre
in my mind, the Idca oF a Church, Ot
Hlappinels or Misery: Or can it help me
to ans of them, wrhen lhare occation For
them  IE nOL, Ehen Fhese IdeaS uA DC
new imprest when l’aweke; but it they
remain in che sonl wrhen l Was ouly thist-
insot a: Forse, Whercever they are De-
Aon d, it mar be prelum d, chere is v00in
For chatone Idea more rithont chrustins
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