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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 18

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  1. Noinnate practicat Principles.
  2. be convinced ofcheir Obligation. Others also may come iobe oF the same
  3. Mind, From their Fducation, Company, and Customs of their Country;
  4. ertrich Persvasion hovever eot, wilt serve to set Conscience on mork, Wrtrict
  5. is nochins elle, but our omn Opinion of our omn Actions. And il COn
  6. Science be a Proof ot innate Principles, contraries mar be innare Prinei-
  7. ples: Since some Men, Wich the lame bent of Conscience, prolecute what
  8. Others avoid.
  9. 8. 9. Buc Tcannot sec hor any Men Tould ever transeress thole Morat
  10. Rules, with Considence, and Serenity, ere they innate, and Ctamped upon
  11. their Minds. Viem but an Army at thesackins ot a Town, and sec WwlraE
  12. Oblerrations, or Sense of Moral Principles, or Wrhat touch of Consci-
  13. ence, For all the Outraces ther do. Robberies, Murders, Rapes, arcthe
  14. Spores of Men set at Liberer trom Punitiment and Censure. Havethere
  15. not been Wrhole Nations, and those oF the most civilized People, amonest
  16. wrtrom, che expolins cheir Children, and learinq them in the Ficlds, to pe-
  17. rim by NVant, or Wild Bealts, has been the Practice, as little condemned
  18. Or (crupled, as the becettins them: Do they noc Rill, in lome Couri-
  19. tries, put them into the same Graves Writh their Mothers, il ther die in
  20. Child. Birth; Or dispateh them, il a pretended AArologer declares them
  21. to have untrappr Stars: And are there not Places, Wrhere at. a certain
  22. Age, ther Hill, or expole cheir Parents withour any remorle at aII: In a
  23. Part oF Asia, the Sick, When their Casc comes to De thoughe desperate,
  24. are carried out and laid on the Farch, belore thes are dead, and lete there,
  25. (2) Gruber a. exposed eo Wind and Weather, to perish ithout AMistance or Pity. (∞) le
  26. pud Therenot, is Familiar amonest the Mengrelians, a Pcople professino Christianity, eo
  27. vart 4. V. L3
  28. (B) Lambert. Bury cheir Children alive without scruple. (B) There are Places iwhere
  29. apua There. ther eat their omn Children. (V) The Caribes vere wont to seld cheir
  30. noL, D. 38.
  31. 2) Voltiis de Children, on purpose totat and eat them. (M) And Carsilasso de la Veca
  32. Viliormel. Tells us oFa People in Perus Wrhricle lvere wont to fat and eat cheir Chil-
  33. dren ther sOc on their female Caprires, rhich ther Kepe as Concubines
  34. For that Purpose. (E) The Virtues, Whereby che Lououpinambas believed
  35. Ce) Tesdes . Chef merited Paracile, vere, Revense, and carine abundance of their F-
  36. cas, l. 1. C. 12. nemies. (3) Ther have norso much a5 a Name For God, Lery pac. 276.
  37. No Achnomledoient of any God, no Relision, no Worctip, pac. 27T.
  38. The Saints, Who are canoniz d amonos the Lurtes, lead Lives, Wrhich one
  39. canrior Wich Modesty relate. A remarhable Pastase to this Purpose, out
  40. OF the Voyase os Baumearten, Whieltis a BoOlc, not everr Dar to be met
  41. ich, PMall set dornat larse, in the Languase it is publistred in. Ib
  42. (Sc. proxe Belbes in AGYDEO) vidimus sanctum unum Saracenicum inter a
  43. renarum cumulos, ita ut ex urero matris prediit nudum sedentem. Mos est.
  44. ut didicimus Mahomerictis, ut eos, qui amentes (s sine ratione sunt. pro Canctis
  45. colant (5 venerentur. Insuper Cs eos qui cum diuvitam ecerint inquinatissimam,
  46. voluntariam demum paenitentiam (5 paupertatem, Sanctitate venerandos de
  47. putant. Fjusmodi vero genus hominum libertarem quandam effraenem habent,
  48. domos quas volunt intrandi, edendi, bibendi (5 quod majus est, concumbendi;
  49. ex quo concubitu, si proles secuta fuerit, sancta similiter habetur. Ilis ergo
  50. hominibus, dum vivunt maenos exhibent honores; mortuis vero vel templa
  51. vel monumenta extruunt amplisima eosqe contincere ac sepelire maximae fortus
  52. nae dueunt loco. Audivimus haec dicta (5 dicenda per interpretem à Mucrelo
  53. nostro. Insuper sanctum illum, quem eo loci vidimus, publicitus apprime com-
  54. mendari, eum esse TTominem Canctum divinum ac interritate praecipuum, eo
  55. quod, nec faminarum unquam esset nec puerorum, sed rancummodo asella-
  56. rum concubitor atque mularum. P’ereer. BauMSarEeH, l. 2. C. F.. p. 73. Where
  57. chen are chose innare Principles, ol sultice, Piery, Gratiude, Equity,
  58. Chactuy:
  59. 18. 19.
  60. 6) P. MarE.
  61. Dec. 1.
  62. 15) Lery, cot e
  63. Book I.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 18. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0034?run=74