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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 63

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  1. lerception.
  2. 8. 20. Nor necd e monder, that this is done with (o little notice, i
  3. re consider, hor very quick the actions of the Mind are pertormed: FOr
  4. a5 it selftales upno spacc, hasnoextention; (o its actions leem to require
  5. notime, but mans ofthem seem to be crouded into an Instant. Ispeak
  6. this in comparison to the actions of the Body. Any one may calily ob-
  7. serve this in his own ThougHes, Who will talse the pains tO refect On
  8. them. FTo, as it evere in an instant, docs our Minds, with onc glance,
  9. sec allthe parts oF a demonstration, which may very well be called a lone
  10. Onc, il we consider the time it ill require to rut it into Words, and Atcp
  11. by Rep Ten it anocher: Sccondlr, re Mall noc be lo much surprized
  12. that ehis is done in us ith (o licele notice, il we consider, hou the faci
  13. licy ve set of doins chings, by a custom ol doins, matees them otten
  14. Pals in us, without oux norico. FTabirs, especiall sueh as are bexun ve-
  15. ry carly, come, at lalt, to produce actions in us, Which often scave our obser-
  16. vation. Ilow Trequently do we, in a das, corer our Eyes rrith our tive-
  17. lids, Writhout perceirins thatre are at all in the dark: Men, that by cu
  18. Com have eot theuse ot a By-word, do almost in every sentence, pro-
  19. nounce Counds; Which, thouoh talten notico ot by otters, ther thiem
  20. selres neither hear, nor oblerve. And cheretore tis not (o strange, that
  21. our elind Bould otten chansethe Idea oF its Senlation, intottrat ot iis
  22. Judoment, and malse one serre onls to excite the other, rithout our
  23. talcins notice ot it.
  24. 6. TF. This Foculty oF Perception, scems tome to bethat, wrhich puts
  25. the distinction berwint the animal Kinsdom, and the inferior parts of Na-
  26. ture. For horever Vegerables have, many ot them, lome degrees ot
  27. Mocion, and uxon the difterent application ot octer Bodies to chem, do
  28. very bristels alter cheir Fisures and Morions, and so have obtained the
  29. name ossensitire Plants, trom a motion, Wrhich has some resemblance to
  30. chac, irtrich in Animals Follos upon Sensation: Vet, I suppole, it is aII
  31. bare Mechanisim; and no otherwile produced, than ehe turmine oF a wild
  32. Oat-beard, br the inlinuation ot the Particles ot Moilture; or the Mort-
  33. nins oF a Rope, by the attusion of Water. AII erhich is done ithout
  34. any senlation in the Subject, orthe havinq or receivins any Ideas.
  35. 9. F2. Perception, Ibeliere, is, in lome degree, in all sorts of Animals;
  36. thouol in lome, possiblr, the Avenues provided tor the reception ot Sen-
  37. sations, are (o ler by Nature, and the Perception, thes are reccived itl,
  38. (0 obleure and dull, that it comes extreamly Mhort ol the quicknels and va-
  39. riety oE Sensations, Which is in ocher Animals; Dut retitis sufficient For
  40. and wilelr adapted to the state and condition of chat sore oF AnimalS, Wvho
  41. are thus constituted by Nature: Sothar thc Wisdom and Goodness oF the
  42. Mater, plaintr appears in aIl the Parts of this Aupendious Fabrick, and
  43. alltheseveral deorees and rants ot Creatures in it.
  44. 5. 23. Wemay, Ichink, trom theMalse oF an Oyster, or C ockle, reato-
  45. nably conclude, that it has nor lomanr, nor (0 quick Senses, 25 a MTan,
  46. or several other Animals; nor il it had, mould it in thac state and inca-
  47. pacier of transserring it self trom one place to another, be better d by
  48. chem. What ∞00d rould Sioht and Flcarino do to a Creature, that can-
  49. noc move it sel( to or Fromthe Objects, Wherein at a distance it perceires
  50. Good or Fvil: And evould not quichnels ot sensation, De an Inconveni.
  51. ence to an Animal, that must lic silI, Wrhere Chance has once placed it;
  52. and chere receiresthe atux of colder or warmer, clean or tout Water, as
  53. it haPPEnSLO COmC FOIL:
  54. 3. 20

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 63. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0079?run=74