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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 34

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  1. No innate Principles.
  2. belierc) ret, Pthink, te Children can be supposed eo have those Jdea s,
  3. Wrhich cheretore chey must besin to have sometime or orlier; asd then
  4. ther ill also begin to assent to that Propolicion, and matie verr licele
  5. queltion of it ever alter. Bur such an astent uvon learins, nO MOre prOVeS
  6. the Ldeas ro be innate, than it docs, Phat one born blind (Writh Cacaracts,
  7. Whichill becouched to morro) had theinnate Ldeas OF Ehe SIIM, Or
  8. Listu, or Sattron, or Pellor; because wrhen his Sistur is cleared, he will
  9. certairlr assent tothis Propolirion, That the Sunis lucid, or that SaHron is
  10. sello: Andcheretore il such an allent upon hearins cannot proverhe acas
  11. innate, it can much lessthe Propoiions made uposthose Ideas. EEle have
  12. any innate Ldeas, Firould be glad toibe told, whac, and hor mans chez are.
  13. 5. 20. Belides Wrhat Phare already laic, there is another lecason, irhry
  14. Idoube, that neitherthese, nor ans other Principlesare innate. Pehiac am
  15. sully pertraded, that the intinirels Wise GOD made all Thinss in pertect
  16. Wisdom, cannot latistie my selt, why he thould Desuppoled to princ uron Eko
  17. Minds oFMen lome univer(al Principles; Whereos thole that are precend.
  18. edinnate, and concern speculation, are of no creat use; and those that con-
  19. cern Practice, not selfevident; and neither of them distincuisable from
  20. Some other Truths, not alloved co he innate. Por to whac purpose strould
  21. Characters begraven on the Mind, by thetinger oF God, Which are nOE
  22. clearer there, than thole which are atiervards introduced, or cannor be
  23. distinguistid from: IF any one thinks there are such innare ideas and
  24. Propolitions, Which by cheir clearness and usetulness, are dictinsuithrable
  25. Trom all that is adventicious in che Mind, and acquired, ir rill nOE DC a
  26. hord matrer For him to tellus, Whichchey are; and then every one rill
  27. Be a ft Judge, Whether cherbe 10, or no. Since il there De luch innaro
  28. Edeas and Impressions, plairls different Crom all our other verceptions
  29. and lnomledse, every onc ill tind it true in hummselt. OF the evidence
  30. OFthele suppoled innate Maxims, lhare spolcen already; os cheir usctulnels,
  31. I MalI have occalion to speak more herealter.
  32. S. 2. F. Toconclude, lome Ldeas Torardly offer themselves toallmens In.
  33. derstandinss; and some sorts of Truthsretult fromany Ldeas, as loon aS tho
  34. nd puts them into Propolitions: Other Pruchs require a train oi Ideas
  35. placed in order, a due comparins ofthem, and deductions made wich at-
  36. cention, before ther can be discorerec and allented to. Some ol the tirst
  37. fore, becaule ot cheir general and calie reception, have been mistaken fOr
  38. innate: Butcherruth is, Ideas and Notions arc no more born with us
  39. chan Arts and Sciences; though lome ofthem, indeed, otter them selves tO
  40. Our Faculties, more readils than others; andtheretore are more seneraliy
  41. received; thoush that too, be accordins as the Orsans oE our Bodies,
  42. and Porvers oF our Minds, happen to be employ d: G0d havine frted Men
  43. vith faculties and means, to discover, observe, and retain Truths, accordine
  44. ly as therare employd. The grear difterence that is to be found in the
  45. Nocion oFMankind, is, trem the disterent usc they put cheir Eaculties to,
  46. Whilst some (andthose the molt) cakrins chinss uxor trust, misemploy their
  47. porer oF ARenE, by lazils enslaring their Minds, tothe Dictates and D0.
  48. minion oE ochers, in Doctrines, Which it is their Duts caretullr to exa-
  49. mine; and not blindly, rith an implicit faith, totvallow: Others employ-
  50. ins their Thoughes ouls about some terr thinss, srou acquainted sufi-
  51. ciently with chem, atrain ereat desrees of tnomledse in them, and arc
  52. ionorant of all other, havins never let their Thouchis loose, in the scarch
  53. ot ocher Enquiries. Thus, that the threc Angles ot a Triansle are equal
  54. totro Rishtones, is a Truth, as certain as any chins ean bc; and Ichinti
  55. more erident, chan mans ot chole Proxositions chat eo Cor Principles; and
  56. 70

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 34. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0050?run=74