# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797937889:0066 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797937889:0066?run=74 # Title: A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 3; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 3) # Folio 54, page id 797937889:0066 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=797937889&page=66 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/797937889/jpgs/default/00000066.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 38 lines, status machine # Lines: 38 recognised, mean confidence 0.91 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. 54 ciples, Pill sire him some help in his enquirr nhat Natural Conschence IS, aC- cordins to Them. R. P. 5. But ArIC, I must take norice ot a Caril he Degins nich ac AT. LockS detinine Conscience to De nothins else DuE our oun Opinion of our oun Actions, Without ex- pressins itat fort ot Actions are the Sub. jects of it. NToir anr onc whoreads that Dart ot his Essay, will find that Dilcour- fins OF Innate Practical Principles, he aII alons mentions orls tuch Actions aS are to Dc reterd toMoral Rules, and that ne hac no reaton to appretiend beins misun- derstood, or that it couid De supposd he included any other sort ot Actions, no Ocher beins at all to the purvose in thac Dcestion. Betoro I procced to speak oF What I chink the true Nocion ot Nacural Con- Science, ot irhat Authorier, and of nrhat eise it i5; it wiil be Ar to consider nhae the Remarker Cays he understands DY IE, Wrhich he next procecdsto tellus, but de fines it more particularis in another place thus: A Nacural Sacacity to distingnistr Mlorat Vood and Fvil; or a different per- ception and sense of them, with a different affection of the Mind arisine from it and this (o immediate as to prevent and an- ticipate au External Laros, and al Ratioci- nation. This he Cars he takes to De the Foundation of Natural Relision withont Which he does not tenom hor it can subsist: tho he approres otMT. LockS ACcOunEOF Nlaturat P. 7.