An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. -
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- farther Tivent, the larzer Prospect Thad: New Discoveries led me stilt
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- but possibly it mishe be reduced toa narrower compassthan it is; and that
- some Parts of ic mizhe be contracted: the vay it has been vrit in by catebes,
- andminy lonz intervals of Interruption, beinz apt to cause some Repeticions.
- But eoconsessthe Truth, Pam non toe lazie, or to0 busse to matie it sorter.
- lam not ienorant bon lictle l berein consult my don Reputa-
- tion, when Tknowingly let it ∞0 xith a Fault, so apt to discust the most
- judicions, mho are alvays the nicest Readers. But they uho
- Hnom Eloth is ape to contene it self mith any Fxcuse, will pardon me, if
- mine bas prevailed on me, vhere, Pthink, Phave a very good one. J Will
- noc therefore alledre in my Desence, that the same Notion, havins diffe-
- rent Respects, may be convenient or necessary; to prove or illustrate seve
- rat Paris of the same Discourse; andtbat so it bas bappened in mano
- Parisofthis: But mavine that, l phall frankly avo, that I bave
- sometimes diveli lonz upon the same Areument, and expressed it different
- vays, vitb a quice different Design. Ipretend not to publish this Fsay
- for che Information of Nen of large Thouxhes and quick apprehensions;
- to such Masters of Rnomledse L prosess my self a Scbolar, and therefore
- vanthem before hand not to expect anything here, but wbat beine spun
- out of my con course Thouzhes, is ficted to Menof my oun size, towhom,
- perhaps, it vill not be unacceptable, that P have taken some Pains tomate
- plain and familiar totheir Thonehts some Truths, whieh establistred Pre-
- judice, orthe abstractnessof ihe Ideas themselves, mizh: render difficult.
- Some Objects had need be turned on every side; and Wben the Tlotion is
- nem, as Iconsess some os chese are tome; or out of the ordinary Road;
- a5 Y suspect they will appear to otbers, tis not one simple viem of it, that
- mill zain it admittance into every Understandinz, or fix it there with a
- clear and lastinqe Impression. There are fem, L believe, who have not
- observed in themselves or otbers, That ubat in one may of proposinz vas
- veryobscure, another may of expressinq il, bas made very clear and intel.
- ligible: Thoush aftermard the Nind found lictle difference in the Pbra-
- ses, and vondered inhy one failed to be understood more than the otber.
- But every thing does not hit alite apon every Mans Imagination. We
- have our Understandines no less different thian our Palats; and he that
- tbintsthe same Truth stal be equally relisted by every one in the same
- dress, mayas well bope to feast every one mith the same sort os Cookery:
- The Meat may be the same, and the Touristiment g00d, yet every one
- not be able to receive it with that Seasoning; and it must be dressed a
- nother vay, is jou wil bave it g0 donn mitli some; even of strong Constio
- tutions. The Truthis, those inho advised me topublissi it, ad vised me,
- for this Peason, t0 publis it as it is: and since. I have been brouebt to
- let it 80 abroad, L desire il prould be under stood by mhoever sives himself
- it
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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/778263916:0013?run=74