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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 28

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  1. No innate Primipus
  2. EY, TearS Old, Whether a Man, BeinE a Creature, consistins ot sout and
  3. Bodr, De chelame Man, Whenhis Body is changed: Whecher Cuphorbus
  4. and Prthacoras, havins had ehe lame Soul, rvere the Pame Man, chO
  5. they lired several Ases asunder. Nay, Whether, the Cock t00, Which
  6. had the same Soul, erere notthe lame ithboch otthem: Wherebr, per-
  7. hraps, it will appear, that our Idea of sameness, is not 10 setled and clear,
  8. asto deserre to be thouoht innate in us. For il thole innate Ldeas, are
  9. not clear and distinet, (0 a5 to beuniversally knomn, and naturally aorecd
  10. On, ther cannot be the Subjects of univerlal, and undoubred Pruchs; BuE
  11. Will be the unaroidable Occasion of perpetual Oncertainty. FOr, L (uP.
  12. pole, erery ones Idea oF Identitr, will not be the same, that Pythacoras,
  13. and Thousands ochers ofhis Follovers have: And which chen lhaII BC Fhe
  14. rrue. Wrhicl innace. Or are chere tro ditterent Ideas oE Ldenticy, borti
  15. innate:
  16. S L Norlet any one chinte, that the Onestions, Thare here proxoled,
  17. about the Identier ot Man, are bare, emper Speculations; wrtrichil they
  18. evere, rould be enough tomheir, Thatthere ras in the Inderstandines
  19. Ot Men no innate Idea of Identier. FIC, that MalI, With a licEle AETCN-
  20. tion, reflect on the Relurrection, and consider, that Dirine Justice Mal
  21. brins to fudement, at the last Day, the very lame Persons, to be hapry or
  22. miserable in the ocher, wrho sid rell or ill in this Litc, will And it, per-
  23. taps, not casie to resolve witch himselt, wrhat makes the lame Man, or
  24. Wrherein identity consists: Andrill noc be Formard to chinke he, and every
  25. one, even Children themselves, have naturally a clear Idea oF it.
  26. 6.6. Let us examinc that Principle OF MathematicLS, viz. That the whole
  27. is bicrer than a parr. Fhis, Ccalce it, is reckon d amonst innate Principles.
  28. Pam sure it has as good a Tirle as aur, tobe thousht (o; which yet, no
  29. Body can think it to be, when he considers the Idea sit comprehends in
  30. it Thole and Part, are pertectly Relatires Durthe Politire Ldeas, torhich
  31. ther proverly and immediatels belone, are Fixtension and Number, ol
  32. ertrich alone, Whole and Part, are, Relations. S0 that if rhole and. Part
  33. are innare Ideas, Fxtension and Number must be lot00, it beins impos.
  34. sible tohare an Ldea oF a Relation, ichout tavins any at aIL oF the
  35. chins to which it belones, and in wrhich it is founded. Nor, Whether
  36. theMinds oFMen have naturaliy imprinted on them the Ideas of Fxten-
  37. sion and Numiber, Ileare to be consulered by thole, Whoare thie ParrOnS
  38. Otinnate Principles.
  39. 5,7. That Cod is 1o be vorstipped, is, ithout doubt, as preat a Trurir
  40. as any can enter intothemindoE Man, and deserres the tirst placcamonsE
  41. all practical Principles. But vet, it can by vo means bethoustr innate
  42. unless the Ideas oF God, and Worship, are innate. That tlie Idea, the Perm
  43. Worship Rands For, is not in the Cnderstandins oF Childrem, and a C ha-
  44. racter samped on che Mind in its tirst Orisinal, I thints, Will be casily
  45. Franced, by ans ore, that considers ho seur there be, amonst cronn
  46. Men, irtio have a clear and distinct Norion ofit. And, Isuppole, there
  47. cannot be an thing more ridiculous, than to lay, that Children have cHis
  48. practical Principle innate, That Cod is to be vorstipped; and yet, that
  49. cher lnom not Whatthat Worci oF Godis, whichis cheir Duty. But10
  50. Pals by this.
  51. S. 8. IEanY Idea can De imasin d innate, ple Ideaof Cod may, OF all otters.
  52. for many Realons, De thoushr (0; Uince it is hard to conceire, hon there
  53. Arould be innate, Moral Principles, without an innate Idea ol à Deity:
  54. Wichout a Notion oF a LaW-maker, it is impossible to hare a Notion Ot,. 2
  55. La, andan Oblisation ro obserre it. Besides ile Acheists, ralen norice
  56. 0

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 28. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0044?run=74