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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 39

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  1. The Original of our Ideds.
  2. he vould haveno more Taeas OF Scarlet or Green, than he Fhat Trorm his
  3. Childhood never tasted an Orster, or a Pinc. Apple, has oE thole particu-
  4. lar Relistres.
  5. 5.7. Nen chen come to Be Surnished, With server or more simple Ideas From
  6. ithout, accordins as theobjects, ther converse withaftord sreater or lester
  7. varietr; and trom the Operation of their Minds within, according asthey
  8. More Or lels restect on TheM. FOr, ThOUSH HC FhAE CONFeMPIALCS FCO
  9. peratiens of his Mind, cannot bur have plain and clear Ideas ol them;
  10. vet untess he turn his Thoushts thar as, ond considers them attentive-
  11. ly, hewillnomore have clear and distinet Fdeas of all ehe Operations et
  12. his Mind, and all ehat mas be observed cherein, than he will have all
  13. the particular Ideas ol aris Landscape, or ol the Parts and Motions ot a
  14. Clock, Whoriil nor curn hisFres to ic, and wich arcention hreed all the
  15. ParES OE it. The Picture, or Clock mas be (0 placed, that they may
  16. come in his Way every Day; Dut yet he will have buc a contuled Idea oE
  17. allthe Parts thez are made ux oE, till he applies himjels with artention, 10
  18. consider ehem cach in particular.
  19. 6. 8. And hence ire see che Rcason, Wrhy tis pretey late betore most
  20. Children set Ideas ot the OperationsoFcheir omn Minds; and fome have
  21. not anv very clear, or perlect Ideas oF the greatest part of ehem all cheir
  22. Tives. Becaule, Chouxh ther pass there continually; Vet lile Aoarino VIII
  23. ons, ther mate nor decp Imprestions enoush, to leare in the Mind clear
  24. and distinet, lastins Ideas, eill ehe Onderstandins curn invards uxon iis
  25. TelF, and reftect on its own Operations, and matre them the Obieet oF its
  26. oon Concemplarion. Whereas Children at their Arst comins into ehe
  27. Worid, Seck particularls alter nothine, but what mas ease cheir Iunger,
  28. er octier Pain: but ralce all ocher Objeets as ther come, are generally
  29. pleased rith all nem ones, that are nor paintul; and (o grorins up in a
  30. constant attention to outrard Senlations; seldom make any considerable
  31. Rerlection on irhat passes rithin them, eill they come tobe ot riper
  32. Vears; and some (carce ever at aII.
  33. 6. 9. FoasE, at what time a Man bas first any Tdeas, is to aste, Wtien
  34. he begins eo perceire, havins sdeas and Perceprion being the same thins.
  35. Tknoir it is an Opinion, that the Soul alvars thinks, and thac ic has the
  36. actual Perception of Ideas in its Telt constanty, as lone as it exicts; and
  37. that actual chintrins is as inseparable trom ihe Soul, as actual Fxtension
  38. is trom the Body; Which il true, to enquire alter the beginnine of a Mans
  39. Ideas, is che lae, as to enquire alter the besinnins ot his Soul. For by
  40. this Rccount, Soul and Ideas, as Body and txtension, Will begin eo exist
  41. both at the lame time.
  42. 5. FO. But Whecher the Soul De suppoled Eo exist antecedent LO, Or edC-
  43. val wich, or lome time alter ehe first Rudiments of Organisation, or the
  44. besirnines oE Lise in the Body, I lcave to be disputed by chose, Who
  45. have BCEEer FhOUDHE OE FHIAE maEtEr. P Conte(s my selF, to have one ot
  46. those cuII Souls, thac doth nor perceire it sel( alvays eo contemplate its
  47. Fdeas, nor can conceive it any inore necellary For the Soul alvays tothint-
  48. than For eie Bod) alivars to move: the verception ot Ideas, beins (a5 I
  49. ConceivC) to the Soul, rhat morion is tO FHC BOdY, nOL IES FNIenCO, buF
  50. Operation: Aud theretore, though chinkins be suppoled never so much
  51. thie proper Action oFthe Soul; ver it is nor necetarr, to suppose, that it
  52. Mould be alrars thinkins, alvays in Action. THaF, perhaps, is the Pri-
  53. vilese of the infinite Author and Proserver oFall thines, who never pum-
  54. bers nor seeps; BUE IS HOECOMPCEEME EO any finite Beins, at least nOL LO
  55. thesoul oCMB. Weknon cerrainly by Experience, chat we lomecimes
  56. cliints

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 39. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0055?run=74