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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 38

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  1. The Original ot our Ideus.
  2. Book I1.
  3. sonine. Knowing. Willinc, and allthe different actinss oF our omn Minds;
  4. which re beins conscious ob, and observine in our selves, do trom chele
  5. receire into our Onderstandins, as distinet Ldeas, as re dolrom Bodies
  6. affectins our Senses. This Source ot Ideas, every Man has Wholly in
  7. himselF: And though it be not Sense, as having nochins to do wirh exter.
  8. nal Objects; ret it is very likce it, and mighe properly enoush be call d
  9. internal Sense. But aS P cali the other Sensation, (0 ICaII this R P-
  10. FT. F C ZYON; the Ideas it affordsbeins such only, 25 the Mlind gets
  11. by reflectins on its omn Operations ithin ic seiF. By R F F L F C TION
  12. then in the follorins part of this Discourle, I Would be understood eo
  13. mean, that notice erhich the Mind takes ofits omn Operations, and thc
  14. manner ofthem, by realon Wrhereot, there come to be Ideas oFthele Ope-
  15. rations in theVnderstanding. Thele two, I Pay, viz. External, Marerial
  16. chings, asthe Objects OF S F NS AYTON; and the Operations ot our
  17. omn Minds within, asthe Objects OF RF F P. FC TTOH, arc, to me, the
  18. Oulr Originals, trom whience all our Ideas tale their beginminzs. Tlc
  19. term Operations here, Iuse in a larse sence, as comprehendins not Barety
  20. the Actions oPthe Mind about its Ldeas, but fome Pore oF Palsions arisine
  21. sometimes Tromthem, such as ische larislaction or uncasiness arisins srom
  22. ans chought.
  23. 8. 5. The Onderstanding scems tome, not to have the least glimmerins
  24. OFanz Ldeas, irhich it doth noc receire From one of these LWo: Pternat
  25. Objects furnis the Mind with the Ideas of sensible qualities, ertrich are
  26. allthose different perceptions thes produced in us: Andthe Mind fur-
  27. nispes the Onderstandine with Ideas of its oun Operations. Flele, Wtien
  28. Wre have eaten a full surves of chem, and their several modes, and the
  29. Compolirions made out ot chem, we Mall find to contain all our whole
  30. Aock OF Ldeas; and that re have nochins in our Minds, Wrhich did not
  31. come in, one ofthese trro rays. Let any one examine his omn Thougbts,
  32. and chroushir search into his Vnderstandins, and then let him tell me
  33. Wrhether all the original Ldeas he has there, are ans other thanof theOb.
  34. jects oFhis senses, or oEthe Operations oF hisMind, considered as Objectsof
  35. lis Reftection: and hoW greaE a mass oF Knomledee (oever he imaoines FO
  36. Delodsed there, he ill, uxon tatins a Ariet vieir, sec rirat he tras not any
  37. Idea in his Mind, but what one of those tuo have imprinted; FhousH, per-
  38. haps, with intinite variety compounded and exlarsed, by che Vnderstan.
  39. dins, as We Mall sec hercatrer.
  40. S. 6. Fle that attentivelr considers the Rate OF a Child, 2t his Erst co-
  41. mins into elie Worid, isl have litrle reason to chinte tim Rored WitH
  42. plentr oF Ldeas, that are tobe the matrer of his future Rnomledoc. Tis
  43. by deorees he comes ro be furnished with them: And thouchtne Ideas
  44. of obvious and tamiliar qualities, imprint themselres, before the Memo-
  45. rr beginsto keep a Register oF Fime and Order, Vet tis otren se late be.
  46. fore Pome unusual qualiries come in the az, char there are ter Men that
  47. cannor recollect the beginnine of their acquaintance wirh them: Andit
  48. it rere vorth wrhile, no doube a Child might be so ordered, astohavetut
  49. 2 very ferr, even oE the ordinary Ideas, till He WerE GrOA UP tO a Man.
  50. Bur being surrounded mith Bodies, that perpetually and diverits aftectus.
  51. varietr ot Ldeas, Whether care De talren about it, orno, are imprinted
  52. On the Minds oF Children. LichF, and Colours, are bulie and at hand every-
  53. rhere, rhenthetre is Dut open. Sounds, and Come taneible Oualities. Fail not
  54. tosollicite their proper Senses, and force an entrance tothe Mind; but vet
  55. Ichinl, it Will BC granted calily, That il a Child vere hept in a place,
  56. here henever Carr any other but Black and White, till he Were a Man,
  57. BC

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 38. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0054?run=74