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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 62, page id 797937889:0074
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Naturat; But in ehis sense oF them he ilt
make no a-do about themord innate; IE the
Ouection De thether chere arc Innate
Povers Or Faculties in theSoul, the con-
troverlie rill nor De chaned, For there
Wil Be no controrersie at aIl; MT. Lock
ontr contends against thole nho lay there
are Principles oF MetaphisicaI Or HOral
Prucho Orisinally imprinted on the mind:
by rrhich, it thes onls mean chat chere is
an Innate POIer Or Capacier in the Soulot
norins those Truths, thCy ean nOTHINE
disterent trom MT. Lock, erho denies innase
Principles; for he docs Hor denr chat
Ehere iS a POrer IN EHC SouI ot percei-
vins; and assentins to rhose TrutHS, OZ OF
distinsuiins crood and Fril; tho he is
noclo ready ac it as the Remarker, Without
emplorins his Faculties aboutit, or with
out Ratiocination: S0 thereis no occation
Forhim to form an Ldea of the Soul mithont
any Povers, nor for that supposition Wrhich
rith a Ccomine charitable wittr, thC RC-
marker mon d s0 sronndlesy Fasten on
MF. Lock.
Thenext place IMall mention, Wrhere
Innate Principles; aud Natural Principles,
areusd in the Pame sense, and Both only
FOr Povers Or. Faculties oF the Soul, is Pase
eheFifteenth, Where he pretends to antiver
a Dillemma Wrhich Mr. Lock proposes con-
concernins fInnate Principles. But any
one irtio takes the pains to consider nhat
hethere Pars, will find that heules thole
Terms in a quite disterent sense trom that
irhich
P. 23.