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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 56

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  1. Simple Ideas.
  2. ertich Ideas, is L speake OF Lometimes, ad in the chines chemselves, L would
  3. be understoodtomean those Oualities in the Objects ertich produce them
  4. in US.
  5. 5. 9. Concernins thele Qualiries, Wemay, Tthink, observe these prima-
  6. ry ones in Bodies, that produce simple Ideas in us, 2iz. Soliditr, FXtCr.
  7. Tion, Motion or Rest, Number and Figure.
  8. G. F0. These, rhich L calloriginal or primary Oualities oF BodY, are W HoI
  9. Iy inseparable trom it; and sueh as in all the alterations and changes it
  10. susters, all the force can beuled uxon ic, it constantly kecps; and such as
  11. Sense constanty finds in every partiele oF Macter, ertrich has bulk enouoH
  12. 1o be perceired, and the Mind finds inseparable trom everr particle ot
  13. Macter, thoush lels than to makse it selFsingly be perceived by our senses.
  14. v. 5. Fase a orain oF Wheat, diride it into tro parts, cach part has stiil
  15. Soliditr. Extension Fieure, and Mobility; divide it again, and ic retains
  16. Aill thelame qualities; and so divideit on, till the parts bocomeinsensible,
  17. ther must recain sill cachoPthem all thole qualities. For divition: Which
  18. is all Fhat a MilI, Or Pestle, or any other B0dY, does upon another, in re
  19. ducins ic to insensible parts) can never talce airas eicher Soliditr, Fxtension.
  20. Fisure, or Nobilier from any Body, bur only makces tro distinct Bodies,
  21. Or more, of one, Which altosether alter dirision have their certain num ber.
  22. 6. TF. The next ching to be considered, is, how Bodies operate Onc ux
  23. On another, and chat is manisestly by impulse, and nochins elle. IE beine
  24. iripossible to conceire, that Body Mould operate on What it docs noc
  25. touch, (Which is all’one as to imagine it can operate where it is nOt)
  26. or trten ic does touch, operate any ocher nay thanby Norion.
  27. 9. F2. IFthen Bodies cannor operare at a distance; il external Objects Be
  28. not united to our Minds, when ther produce Ideas in it; and vet We per-
  29. ceire these oririnal Oualities in such oF them, a5 Lingly Fall under oux Sen-
  30. Ses, tis erident that some motion mustbe thence continued by our Nerres,
  31. or animal Spirits, by some parts oF our Bodies, tothe Brains, the seat ot
  32. Sensation, there to produce in our Mindsthe particular Ideas we have ot
  33. them. And since the Fxtension, Figure, Number, and Morion oF Bodies oF an
  34. obserrable bignels, may bo perceired at a distance by the sizhr, tis cridene
  35. some sinsly imperceptible Bodies must come tromthem to the PYes, arid
  36. cherebs conres coche Brain Pore Morion, wtrieh produces hese Ideas We
  37. have ot ehem in S.
  38. 6. F3. Alter the Pare manner. Fhat the Ideas OE these originat Ouali.
  39. ties are produced in us, e mas conceive, that thc Ideas of secundary dua-
  40. Tities are allo produced, viz. bythe operation of insensible particles on our
  41. Senses. For it beins manitest, that there are Bodies, and good ctore ol
  42. Bodies, cach Whereot is (0 (ntalI, Fhat We CanHOE, By anY OF our Sen
  43. ses discorer cither cheir bulk, houre, or morion, as is evident in the
  44. Parricles of the Air and Water, and otter exrreamly sinaller than thole,
  45. pertraps, as much less than the Parricles OF RIr, Or Water, as the
  46. Particles oF Air, Or Water, are smaller chan Pease or Frail. Aones. Let
  47. us suppole at present, that the difterent Morions and Figures, Bulk
  48. and Number oF such Particles, attectins the several Organs OF oux
  49. Senles, produce in us thole differene Sensations, Wrhich we have From
  50. the Colours and Sinells oF Bodies, 2. 5. a Violet, by rrhich impulle ot
  51. those insensible Particles oF Matter oF different figures and bulLs, and in
  52. a difterent Decree and Modification, e may have the Ideas ot the blué
  53. Colour, and sircet Scent oF a Violet produced in our Minds. It beins no
  54. more conceired impossible, to conceire, that Ood Mould annex such Ide-
  55. as 10 sueh Moriors, with Which eties hare no similicude; chan chathe
  56. Mould
  57. B

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 56. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0072?run=74