An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 65
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- GHAF. Z
- Os Retention.
- 8. 1.
- HF BeXF FaculeY OF the Mind, Whereby it males a Parttier
- Proorels tovards Rnomledge, is that LCall Retention; Or the
- teevins of thole simple Ideas, irtich trom Senlarion or Reflection it
- trach receired, irhich is done tvo wazs; First, cichier by cepins the
- Idea, wtieh is brouxluc into ic, For some time actually in vier, irhich is
- called Contemplation.
- 8. 2. The ocher, is che Pormer to rerive again in our Minds thole Ideas;
- ertich after imprintins have disappeared, or have been a5 it vere laid a.
- side out oE Siglit: And thus we do, etien re conceire FICat or Light.
- Vellon or Sireet, the Object beins remored; and this is Memori, Wrhich
- is as it vere the Storehoule ot our Ldeas. For the narrom Mind oF ian,
- noc beins capable oF harins many sdeas under View and Consideration
- at once, it was necestary to have a Repolitory, 10 lay up thole Ideas,
- erhich at anocher time ie mixhe have use of. And chusit is, by the A(-
- Altance ot theMemorr, that re are said to have al thole Ideas in oyr
- Understandins, wrhich thouchre do not actuallr contemplate, yet e
- can brins in Cight, and matce appear again, and be che Objects ot our
- Chouxhes, ithour the help ofthole sensible Dualicies, Which Firstimprin-
- ted ehem there.
- 6. 3. Attention and Repetition help much co the sixins any Ideas in
- our Memory: But chose, irtrich naturally at Arst mahre the decpest, and
- mostlastins imprestion, arethole, Wrhichare accompanied with Pleasure
- Or Pain. The great Bulinels oFthe Senses, beins to malie us takre notice
- OF What hurES, Or adrantases the Body, it is visely ordered by Nature
- a5 has been Mern) chat Pain Mould accompany the Reception oF leve-
- ral Ideas; irhich supplrinq the Place of Consideration and Realonino in
- Children; and actins quieker than Consideration in grown Nen, makes
- both che L’ouns and Old aroid paintul Objects, with that hasto, wrhich is
- necellarr for their Preserration; and in both lectles in theMemory a cou.
- tiOM POF FhC FuEure.
- 5. 4. But concernins che severat degrees of lactins, Whereith Ideas
- are imprinted on the Memory, wemay oblerve, First, That some of them
- beinu produced in the Onderstanding, cither by the Objects aftectins the
- Senles once Barelr, and no more, especialy il the Mind then otherwise
- implored cool bur licele notice of ic, and set noc on the Ctamp deep into
- it selF; or else, When chrouch the Temper of che Body, or ocherwile, the
- Memory is very reale, tueh Ideas quickly tadte, ad vanimtr quito out of
- che Onderstanding, and leare it as clear Without anY FOOF AepS, Or re-
- mainins Characters, as Chadors doRyins over Fields oE Corn; and the
- Mind is as roid ofthem, as il cher never had BCCM FHerC.
- 8. 5. Fhus mans of chose Ideas, Which ivere produced in the Minds
- ot Children, in che begimnine oE their Senlation (Lome OF Which, per-
- haps, as oF lome Pleasures and Pains vere betore thes were born, and o.
- chers in their InFanCY) il in the future Course ot their Lires, therare HOF
- repeated again, are quire lost, ithout the least slimple remainins oP them.
- This may be obserred in chole, whoby some Mischunce hare lost their
- si8tE,
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 65. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0081?run=74