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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 64

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  1. Perception.
  2. BOoK la
  3. 5. F4. BUE VCE, P CannOE DuE Tink, chere is TOme (maII duII PCrCE-
  4. Peion, irherebs ther are diltinguithed trom perfect Insensibilier. Ard
  5. that thiis mar be lo, e have plain instances, even in Manbind it
  6. SelF. Pakre onc, in rhom decrepid old AgC has Blorted out theMemory ot
  7. nis Pasc Rnomlecoe, and cleariu wiped out the Ideas his Mlina Wvas
  8. Formeriy Atored ich; and has, by destrorine his Sight, Flcarine,
  9. and Smeil quire, and his Faste to a ereat degree, soppd ux almost ail
  10. the Passages fornem ones to enter: Or it there be lome ot the inlets y et
  11. HalE OpeH, EhC Impressions made are sCarCO perCCIVed, Or NOL at aII
  12. retained, PTOr Par such an one (notwithstandino aM that is boacted oF
  13. innare Principles) is in his Rnomledoe, and incellectual Faculries, 2
  14. bore the Condition ot a Cockle, or an Oyster, I lcave to De consi
  15. dered. And if a Nan had passed Sixtr Vears in Cuch a STatC, as Tici
  16. Possiblo he miehe, as wellas threc Days, I monder wrhrat ditterenco
  17. there Would hare been in anz intellectual Persections, between him and
  18. the lowest degrees of Animals.
  19. Perception chenbeins the sirst stes and decree tonards Rnomledee, and
  20. the intet of alt the Materials of it, the ferver Senses any Man, as vell as
  21. ans other Creature, hath; and the ferver and duller the Imipressions are
  22. thac aremade by them; and the duller theFacultiesare, that are employ:
  23. ed about them, the moreremote are ther trom that Rnomledoe, irtricti
  24. is to be found in ome Men. But this being in great variety ot DCorecs,
  25. Casmay be perceired amonsst Men,) cannor certainsy be discovered in
  26. the several Species oF Animals, much less in their particular Individuals.
  27. IEsuffices me onty to hrave remartred here, that Perception is the Arst
  28. Operation of all our intellectual Faculties, and che inlet of aII Hnowledoe
  29. into our Minds. And I am ape ro0, to imagine, That it is Perception
  30. inthe lorest degree of it, erhich purs the Boundaries betrreen Animals,
  31. and the inserior rantes of Creatures. But this Imention onty as my con-
  32. jecture by the byc, it beins inditferent totheMatter in FTand, Wrhich Way
  33. ehe Learned Mall determine ot it.
  34. CH AP.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 64. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0080?run=74