An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. -
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- Reader,
- Flere put intothi Flands, Wuhat has been the diversion of some of
- myidle audheavy FTours: I it hasthe g0od luck to prove se of
- any ofthine, and thou hast but half so much Pleasure in readinz
- as Thad in ioritinque it, thou wilt as little chink thy Noney, as I do
- iny Pains ill bestoved. Wistake not this, for a Commendation of my
- Work; nor conclude, because lvas pleased with the doins of il, that
- theretore Tam fondly taken mith it nov it is done. Fe that hawts at
- Larks and Sparroins, basno less Sport, thoueh a much less considerable
- Ouarry, thanhe that Ries at nobler Game: And he is licele acquainted
- ith ihe Subject os this Treatise, the U NDE RST A NDIN C,
- ubo does not hnom, that as it is the most elevated Faculty of the Soul
- soit is employed mih a greater, and more constant Delight ihan any of
- the otber. Irs searches aster Truth, are a sort of Flawkinq and Tlun-
- ting, vberein ehe very pursuit mates a great part of the Pleasure.
- Fveri step. the Mind tates in its Procress towards Lnovledee, mates
- Discovery, Wbichis not onlynem, but the best t0o, for thetime at least.
- For the Understandins, like te Fge, judeing of Objects, only by
- ilsoron Sirht, cannot but be pleased vith what it discovers, bavine
- less regret for ihat lias scaped it because it is utnODI. Thus he
- 2vbo bas raised bimsels above the alms-Basket, and not content
- tolive lazili on scraps of begr d Opinions, sets bis onn Tbonebes on
- vork, to find and follom Truch, vill (whatever he lichts on) not
- missthe Flunters Sacisfaction; every moment of his Pursuit, mil
- remard bis Pains with some Delisht; aud be will have Reason to thinte his
- rime not il spent, even when he cannot much boast of any oreat Acquisirion.
- This, Reader, is the Entercainment of those, vho let loose their
- onn Prousbes, and follon them in vritins; Which chou ouxbtest
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0011?run=74