An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 67

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1. 181
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5. Lccdetaton.
6. First, That it loses the Iea quite, and (0 tar it procluces persect Teno-
7. ranCC. For lince We can Rhor nochine Farther, than we have thie Ideas
8. Olit, Wvhen they are sonc, re are in pertect ignorance.
9. Secondly, That iE moves PoWIy, and retrieves not the Ideas, that it has
10. and are laid ux in Pore, quick enouch eo serve the Mind upon occalions.
11. This, it it be t0a oreat degree, is Scupidity; and ho, Wrho throuoh this de-
12. Fault in his Memory, has not the Ideas, that are realls preserred there,
13. readr at hand, wtien need and occotion calls for them, irere almost as
14. Bood De Wrichour chem quite, since cher serve him to lictle purpose. The
15. dull NTan, irhro loses thie opportunier, whilst he is secking in his Mind for
16. those Ideas, thar Bould serve his turn, is noc much more hapor in his
17. Rnomledoe, chan one chat is pertectly ignOranE. Fis the busness there
18. Pore of the Memorr, eo Furnistr to the Mind thole dormant Ldeas, WticH
19. it has present occasion Por, and in the havins them readr at trand on aII
20. OccasionS Consicts, that Whieh re call Invention; Fancy; and quicleness
21. Ot PartS.
22. 6. 9. This Faculty oF layins up, atid retaimins che Edeas thât are broustie
23. into the Mind, several orher Animals seem tohare, to a great degrec, a5
24. vellas Man. For to pals by ocher instances, Birds learmine of Tuncs, and
25. the endeavours one mas observe in them tohirthe Notes rislu, put it past
26. doube wich me, chat chier have Perception, and retain Ideas in their
27. Memories, and use chCI FOr PaLtCRNS. For it Scems to me impossible, that
28. ther ould endearour ro contorm cheir Voicesto Notes (as tis plain ther
29. do) oF whichther had no Ideas. Fortho I Thouldorant Scund may mecha
30. nicallr cause a cerrain morion of the animal Spirits, in the Brains oFtliole
31. Birds, Whilst cho Tune is actually plavine; and that motion may becon:
32. tinued on cothe Muscles ofthe Wines; and so the Bird mechanicallY DC
33. driven airay by certain noiles, because this may tend to tho Birds preser
34. vation: yet thiat can nerer be supposed a Reason, irhy it Mould cause me-
35. Chanically, cither erhil( the Tune iras plavine, much less aster it has cca-
36. Sed, Sucli a motion in the Organs of the Birds voice, as Pould contorm
37. it eo the Noces oF a oreion Sound, Which imitation can be of no use to
38. the Birds preservation. Buc, Wrhich is more, it cannot with anv appea
39. rance oF ReaCon, be suppos d (much lels proved) chat Birds rithout sense
40. and Memorr, can approachtheir Notes nearer and nearer, Dy degrces, t0
41. aFuvep lay dyesterdas; Wrhich il ther have no Fdea ol in chcir Memory.
42. is nor no-rhere, nor ean be a Patrern For them to imitate, or Wrhieh any
43. repeated Esars ean brine FhCM RCarer +O. Snce there is no reason utir
44. the Cound of a Pipe Bould leave traces in their Brains, wrhich noc at tirst;
45. buc by chcir alterendeavours Mould produce the lite Sounas; and wrhy
46. che Sounds they make chemselves, Pould not make traces whieh theis
47. Brouid lollo, as wellas those olche Pipe, is impoltible to conceive.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 67. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0083?run=74