An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 115

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2. ide
3. le
4. Shame WC B al uCdCIS OF the Mind, uxon the thoustt ot havine
5. done somethins which is indecent, or Will lessen che Eeem e ralue,
6. has not alwars blustins accompanzins it.
7. 8. 28. Trould noc be mistatentiere, as il I meane this as a Discourse ol
8. Ehe Passions; they are many more thanthose T have herenamed: And thole
9. Phare tatsen notice ot, would cach ot them reguire a much larser and
10. more accurate Discourle. L have orly mentioned theschere, a5 s0 many
11. instances ol Modes oF Pleature and Pain resulrine in our Mincs, From va-
12. rious Considerations ol Good and Fvil; Imighe, perhaps, have instanced
13. in other Modes ol Pleature and Pain more simple thanthele, as the l’ain
14. OlHTunger and Thirst, and the Pleasure ol Fatins and Drinkins. Wheri one
15. 1s s0: l’he pain oE chetleadach, or pleasure ol rational Converlation
16. ricti ones Friend, or discoverins ol a speculatire Fruth uxon Audy. But
17. che Passions beins oE much more concernment to us, I rather made
18. choicero instance inthem, and sier hon the Ideas wehare otthem, are
19. derived trom sensarion and hellection.
20. a d
21. 1X
22. Of Pover.
23. He Mindbeins eery day informedby che Senses, oE the alie-
24. racibr ot thole cmple Ldeas ic obserres in thines rithont, and
25. tatrins notice hor oin coles ib an end, and ceales to be, and anoctier De
26. gins to exist irhich was not belore; rellectins allo on what passes richin
27. ic selt, and oblerrins 2 conltaul chanse oF its Ideas, Cometimes by theim-
28. prestion ot outrard Objects on The Senles, and Lometimes by the determi-
29. nation of its omn choice, and concludine trom What it has lo constant
30. observed to have been, that the like Changes will for the future be made
31. in the same thines, by lite Agents, and by the like ars, considers in one
32. thins the postibilier ol havins an ot its simple ldeas changed, and in
33. ariocher the possibiliey oF maltins that change; and lo comes bY that Idea
34. erhich we call Pover. Thus We Car, Fire has a porver to mele Gold, i. c. t0
35. deltros the consictener of its insensible parts, and consequently itstrard
36. nels, and matce it Auid; and Gold has a porver tobe melted; That the
37. Sun has a poverto blanch Wax, and Nax a porver to De blanched by the
38. Sun, Whereby the Vellomness is destroz d, and Whiteness made to exist
39. in iesroom: in irtrichi, and the litre Cases, the Porver re consider is in
40. relerence tothe chanse of perceirable Ldeas. For we cannor observe any
41. alterationto bemade in, or operation uxon ans thins, but by the oblerrable
42. chansc of its sensible Ldeas; nor conceire ans alteration to be made, but
43. 6. 2. Pover thus considered is twotold, viz. as able to matre, or able to
44. receire any chanse: Theonemas be called Actrve, and the ottier Pas-
45. sive Pover. Whether matrer De not wholly destitute ot actire Porer,
46. 25 its Author COD is truly above all pastive porver; and Whether the
47. intermediate Ctate ol created Spirits be not that alone wrhich is capable
48. oF boch actire and passire Pover, may be orth conlideration: L MaII
49. nOE ner enter inco that enquiry, my presene bulinels beins nOE EO
50. Search into Fhe original OF POIEr, Dut hoi We come by the Idea OE ic.
51. Buc since aire Pouers malie so great a part ot our complex ldeas ot ra
52. rured
53. d. 1.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 115. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0131?run=74