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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 121

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  1. A1c
  2. FOT PONerSarE RelatiOnS, NOE AGenES. DuE it is the Mind, Or FhC NAn
  3. that operares, and exerts thele Porvers; thar does the ACtion, he laS POer,
  4. Or is able to do. That which has the pover, or not the pover to operate,
  5. is that alone, which is, or is noi free; and not the Pover it selF: FOr Frce-
  6. dom, or not Freedom, can belong to nothine, but Whac haS, Or has nOE
  7. a POrertO act.
  8. 6. 20. The atriburins to Faculties, that which belons ec nOF t0 them
  9. has siven occasion to this az os taltring: but the introducine into Dis.
  10. courses concernins the Mind, Wich the name of Faculties, a Notion ot their
  11. operatine, has, I suppole, as litele advanced our Hnomledse in chat part of
  12. our selres,as the great use and mention ot the like invention oF Faculties
  13. in the operations of the Body, has helped us in the bnomlecge of Physick.
  14. NOcthat L deny there are Faculries boch in che Body and Mind: ther
  15. both ofthem trave cheir porvers ot Operarine, elle neicher the one nor
  16. the octier couldoperate: lor nothine can operate, that is not abletoope.
  17. rate; and that is nor ableto operate, that has no porrer to operare. Nor
  18. doTdenr, that those Words, and the lite, are to have their place in
  19. the common use of Languares, thac have made them currani. It l00IE5
  20. likeroo much affectation Wholly to lay them by: and Philosophy it selF,
  21. though itlikes noc a sauds dress, vet ihen it appears in publick, must
  22. hrave so much Complacenes, as to be cloached in the ordinary Pattion
  23. and T. anguage oF the Connerr, (0 far as ic can consist wich Pruth and Per-
  24. spicuier. But the taule hasbeen, that Faculries have been spolen ob, and
  25. represented, as so many distinet AOenIS: For ic beina asted, whar it was
  26. chacdiseltedthe Meat in our Stomachs: it Wras a readu, and verr latistacto.
  27. ry Antiver, tolar, That ic was thedigective Faculer. Whac vas ic that
  28. made any thins come out of the Body: The expulsive Faculty. Whac
  29. moved: The MotireFaculty: And (o inthe Mindtho intellectual Faculer,
  30. Or the Onderstanding, understood; andtheelectire Paculer, or the Will,
  31. willed or commanded: irhrich is in OrEEO SaY, Thac theabilier to digelt,
  32. dicested; aud the abilier to more, moved; and theabilier eo understand.
  33. understood. For Faculer, Abilier, and Pover, I think, are but ditte.
  34. rent names oF the same things: Which ways of speaking, When put into
  35. more intellisible Words, will, Ichink, amount tothus much; ThatDi-
  36. fetion is performed by something thatis able to digest; Motion by Pome-
  37. thino able co move; and Inderstandiro by Comerhins able co under-
  38. Sand. And in truth it would be very strange il ic Mould be otherwile;
  39. as Aranse as ir vould ve for a Man to be Trec withour beins able to DE
  40. Trec.
  41. 5. 2F. Foreturn then co the Enguiry about Liberer, T chinls the rue-
  42. Stion is not proper, whether the Will be free, but Whether a Man be free.
  43. Thus, Trhins,
  44. F. That (0 lar as any one can, by choice, or preserence ofthe existence
  45. ot any Action, toche non exictence ot that Action, and, vice versa, matie
  46. it toexist, or not exist; (0 tar he is free: For it I can, by thepreference ot
  47. the motion of my Finger to issrest, mate ie move, or vice versa, tis evi-
  48. dent, that in respect ot thar, Lam tree: and it l car, by a lite thought oF
  49. my Mind, preterrins one tothe ocher, produce cirher Words, or lilence,
  50. am at liberey to speaki, orhold my peace: andas far as this Pover reaches,
  51. of acting, or not acting, hy the determination of his oun Thouche preferrine
  52. cirher, so far is a Man free. For hor can re chink ans one treer that
  53. tohave che porver to do Whathewill: And (o Far as anr one ean (By pre-
  54. ferrins any Action to its not beins; or Rest roany Action) produce tae
  55. Action or Rest, (0 Car can hedo, What he Will: For such a preterrins oR
  56. ACiom

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 121. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0137?run=74