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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 13

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  1. No innate Principles in asc in
  2. sent, can it rationally be suppolec, thes can beisnorant oF thole NOtions
  3. that Nature has imprinced, ivere chere any such. Can it beimasind.
  4. ichi any appearance oF RcalOn, That thes perceire the Impressions trom
  5. thines erithout; and be at thie lame time isnorant ot those Characters,
  6. irhrich Nature it selE has takcen care to stamprithin: Can ther receire and
  7. allene to adventitious Notions, and beisnoranit ot Fhole, Which are sipi
  8. Dosed roven into thevery Principles of cheir Beins, and imprinced there
  9. in incelible Characters, to be thie Foundation, and Guide of aIl their aC=
  10. quired Rnoledoe, and future Realoninss: This rould be, to matioNa-
  11. ture tale Pains eo no Purpole; Or, at lcast, to vrice very ill; Since its
  12. Charasters could noc be read by those Fyes, Wtich law ocher thines verr
  13. vell; and thole are very ill suppoled the clearest parts of Truth, aud the
  14. Foundations of all our Rnorrledse, erhichare noc tirst lenon, and ich-
  15. out Wrhich, the undoubred Rnomledse oE several other thinss mar behad.
  16. The Child cerrainy KnOrrS, that thie Nurse that Eceds it, is neither che
  17. Car ic plars rich, nor the Blackemoor it is atraid OF; That theWormseed
  18. Or Mastard IE reTuseS, iS HOE te Ipple Or Sucar it cries FOr: Ehis it is Cer
  19. tainlz and undoubredlr assured oF: Bur Will any one lay, it is by Vircue ol
  20. ehiserinciple, That it is impossible for the same thing to be, and not to be-
  21. chat it so tirmly alsenes to chele, and ocher parts ol its Rnomledge: Or
  22. chat the Child has any Norion or Apprehention oF chac Proposirion at an
  23. Age, Wrherein vet ris plain, it lnoirs a great mans other Pruths: FTC
  24. that Wrill Pay Children join chose oeneral abstract Speculatioris with their
  25. suelrino Borcles, and their Rateles, naz, perhraps, ith Sultice be chouoRe
  26. to have more Pastion and Zeal For his Opinion; but less Sincerity and
  27. Truct, chanone oF THaL ABC.
  28. 5. 26. Thoush theretore there De several general Propositions, that
  29. meet ith constant and ready alsent, as soon as propoled to Men GrOrrn
  30. up, irho have actained the use ot more general and abstract Ideas, and
  31. Names Standins For them: yet they not beins to be sound in thole oF ten-
  32. der Vears, Wrho nevercheless hnow other things, ther cannot pretend to
  33. universal altent of intelligent Perlons, and (o by no means can bc luppo-
  34. sed innate: Ie beins impossible, that ans Truth which is innate (il ehere
  35. avere any such) Mould be unknown, at least to ans one, vrtro lnoirs any
  36. thins elle. Since, il they are innate Pruchs, cher mustbe innatethousts:
  37. there beino nothino a Fruth in the Mind, chac iE has never thougHE On
  38. hereby ic is crident, il there De ans innate Truths, thez must necessarili
  39. be the first of any thourhe on; the Firt Fhat appear FherO.
  40. 5. 27. That the general Maxims, We are dilcoursins ot, are nor bnown
  41. Eo Children Ldeots, and a great part ofMankind, re hrave already suf
  42. cienely provec: Whereby it is evident, ther have not an univertal alsent,
  43. nOr are general EmPresTIOnS. But there is this Parcher Argument in it a
  44. sainsttheir beins innate: Phat thele Characters, il thes vere native and
  45. Original Imprections, sould appear fairest and clear est in those Persons
  46. in erhoin ver re And nO FOOE. SepS OF them: And tis, in my Opinion, a
  47. Arono Presumption, tliat they are not innate; lince thes are leolERnOII
  48. to Eliole, in rhiom, ilther rere innate, they mulcnceds exere themselves
  49. rith MOSE FOrCO and VicOUT. FOr Children, Ldeots, Savaces. and illite-
  50. rare Pcople, beins of all ochers the least corrupted by Custom, or Bor.
  51. rored Opinions; Lcarnins, and Fducation, havins not cast their native
  52. thouslus into ne Moulds; nor by super inducins foreion and Atudied
  53. Doctrines, contounded those Pair Characters Nature had Wrirten there; OnC
  54. mighe realonably imagine, Thac in their Minds chele innate Worions
  55. Mould lic open tairty to erery onesvier, as ris cerrain thethoustus ot
  56. Childrem

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 13. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0029?run=74