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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 116

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  2. turat Substances, (25 We Mhall sec hereaster,) and P mention them as such
  3. aceordins to common axprehention; vet they beine not, perhaps, (0
  4. truly active Porvers, as our halty Thoughts are apt to represent them, 1
  5. judee it not amiss, by this intimation, 10 direct our Minds to the con
  6. Edleration of COD and Spirits, for the clearost Ldea ot actire Poiver.
  7. 8. 3. I contels Pover includes in it some teind of relation, (a relatio
  8. to Action or Chanse,) as indeed irhich ofour Ldeas, ol what Lind soever
  9. erten attentirele considered, does HOL: Por our Pdeas OF Fxtention, Durg.
  10. tion, and Number, do ther not all contain in them a lecret relation ol tho
  11. PartS: Figure and Motion have something relatire inthem much more vi.
  12. Sibly; and sensible Oualiries, as Colours and Smells, (sC. Wrtat are they BuE
  13. the Porvers ot difterent Bocies, in relation to our Perception, (Sc. And il
  14. considered in the things themselves, do they not depend on theBull, Fi.
  15. fure, T exture, and Motion oFthe PartS: AII Which include some bind
  16. ot relation inthem. Our Idea theretore oF Pover, P thinks, may well have
  17. a place amonest ottier simple Ideas, and be considered as one of them,
  18. beins one ofthole that makces a principle ingredient in our complex Ideas
  19. OF Substancos, as We Mallhere alter have occalion to MeW.
  20. 5. 4. OFpassire Porer, all sensible thinos abundanty furnim us rrich
  21. Ideas; Whose sensible Oualities and Beines re tind to be in a continual
  22. Aux, and theretore ith reason we look on them as liable still to the same
  23. Chanse. Dor have we ofactive Pover (erhich is themore prover ligni
  24. fication ol the rord Pover) ferver instances: lince Wrhaterer Change is
  25. obterved, the Mlind must collect a Porer Lomerhere, able eo makhe that
  26. Chanse, as vell as a possibiliey inehe chins it selfto receiveit. Dut ver it we
  27. till consider it attentirelz, Bodies by our senles do not aftord us (0 clear
  28. and distinet an Idea oF actire Porver; as ere have trom reflection on the
  29. Operations of our Mivds. For ail Porver relarins ro Action, and chere
  30. being buttro Corts oF Action Whereot re have any Idea, viz. Thintine
  31. and NTorion, letus consider erhence re have the clearest Ideas ot the
  32. Povers which produce chese ACtiOnS. F. OF Thintin, BOdY aFOrcSUS
  33. no Tdea at all, it is only trom Reflection that re have chac; neitter tave
  34. We trom Body any Ldea oFthe beginnins of Motion. A Body ac rest aF
  35. fords us no Fdea oF any actire Porer to move; and when it is set in o-
  36. tion its selE, thac Motion is rather a Passion, than an Action in IF: FOF
  37. woten the Ball obersthe Atroke oF a Billiard. Sick, it is not any action ofthe
  38. BaII. but bare pastion; also When by impalse it sets anocher BaII in mo-
  39. tion that lay in its ay, it ontr communicates theMorion ic had received
  40. From another, and loses in it selE lo much as the ortier reccired; Wrhich
  41. siresus but a vers obscure Idea or an actire Porver of Movine in Body,
  42. rhilst e oblerre it onty to transserr, but not produce any morion. For
  43. it is but a very obscure Ldea of Porver, Which reaches noc the Production
  44. OFthe ACtiOn, but the Contination ot the Pastion: For C0 is Motion in
  45. a Bod impelled by anothers the continvarion of the Alteration made in ie
  46. trom Rest to Motion, beins lictle more an Actiom chan ehe continuation
  47. OF the Alteration OE its Figure hy the Pame blorr is an Action. The Idea
  48. oEthe beginnins of Motion, e hare only from reflection on Whac palles
  49. in our selres, Where re Aind by Experience, that barely by willins it, barels
  50. bya thouohe ofche Mind, ire can move the parts ot ourBodies, which ivere
  51. before at rest: So that it seems tome, we havefromthe obserration ofthe
  52. operation oF Bodies br our senles, but a very imperlect oblcure Idea
  53. oFactire Porer, Since ther altord us noL any Pdea in chemlelres of the
  54. Pouer eo beginans Action, cither Morion or ThoughE. But il fromthe
  55. impulse Bodies are obserred ro mate oncuxonanother, any one thintshe
  56. HaS

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 116. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0132?run=74