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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 127

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  1. Orvet
  2. illrender toeverr Man according eo his Oceds; To them Whoby pa-
  3. tient continuance in Well doins. secl For Cilorr, and IPonour, and Immor-
  4. talier, Fcernal Lise; buc unto every soul that doth vil, Indignation
  5. and Wrach, Fribulation and Anguim: T0 him, T Pay, Whohatha prospect
  6. Of the ditterent State oE pertect Hlappinels, or Misery that atcends alI Men
  7. alter this Lite, dependins on cheir Behaviour here, the mealures of (100d
  8. and Evil, that sovern his choice, are mishrily chansed. For since non
  9. thins of Pleasure and Pain in this Lite, can bear ans proportion to endless
  10. HCappinels, or exquilite Misery ol an immortal Soul hereatter, Actions in
  11. his Porer illharecheir preserence, noc accordins to the transient Plea-
  12. sure, or Pain that accompanies, or follons them here; but as they servero
  13. secure that perfect durable Ilappinels hereaster.
  14. 5. 36. Flethen char ill accouur sor cheMisers, chat Men olten brins on
  15. themselves, nocrichltandins chac thes do all in carnest pursue Ilappine (o,
  16. and alrays preser the greater apparent C00d, must conlider, hou Lhines
  17. come robe represente d to our choice, under deseirful apperrances: and that
  18. is, By the Fudement pronouncins ironsly concernins them. T0 sec
  19. ho far this reaches, and irhat are the Caules oC irrons Judsment, We
  20. must remember, that thines are judsed eo0d or bad in a double
  21. Senlc.
  22. First, That which is properlr eood or bad, is nothine but barely Pleasure
  23. or Pain.
  24. Secondly, But because noc only present eleasure and Pain, Due
  25. chac also which is apt by is efficaer, or consequences, to brins it upon
  26. us at a distance, cannot but more the Will, and determine thie choice
  27. oFa Creature, chac has Forelisht; therelore thines also that dram after them
  28. Pleasure and Pain, are considered a5 600d and F. vil.
  29. 6. 40. The wrone Fudement char misteads us, and matres the Will osten
  30. fasten on the rorse lide, lies in misrevortins uxon the rarious Compari
  31. sons oF these. The Wrons fudgment Pam here speakrins ob, is not What
  32. oneMan may chinle ot the determination oE another; but What every
  33. Man himselF must contessto be Wrons. For since I lay it tor a certain
  34. cround, chac every incellisent Beins really secls llappinels, and rould
  35. enjor all the pleasures hecould, and sulter no pain; tis impossible an
  36. one rould willinolv put into his omn drauxhe any birrer Incredient, or
  37. leare out any thins in his Pover, thât eould add to its svcetness, buton-
  38. ly by a wrons Judement. Lall noc here speak of char miltatse, wrhich
  39. isthe consequence ot invincibler Error, Which scarce deservesthe Name ot
  40. rrons fudsment; but oEchaturons Judement, whieh evers Man him
  41. telFmust contesstoDe (0.
  42. 5. qLJ. I. Theretore, as to present Plcature and Pain, the Mind as
  43. has been saic, never mistakres that which is really sood orevil: that wrhich
  44. is the greater Plcasure, or the greater Pain, is really jult, as it appears.
  45. But chouch present Pleature and Pain, Me their difterence and deerces (0
  46. plainly, as norro leave room Por mistake: Vet uhen we compare present
  47. Pleasure or Pain vith future, we often make vrone fudoments Ot them, ta-
  48. kins our meatures ol them in different posirions ol distance. Objects
  49. near oux vie, are apt to be thoushe ercater than thole of a larg er (12C,
  50. that dre more remote: and so it is ith Plealures and Pains, the prelent
  51. is apc to carry ic, and thole at a diltarice have the diladvantose in the
  52. Comparison. Thus most Men, litse spend chrite Hleirs, are apt to judee
  53. alicele in Hland better than a sreat dealtocome; and (0 for sinall MaF-
  54. ters in Possession, pare rith sreat ones in Reversion: but char chis is a WrOnS
  55. sucomene every one mult allon, let his pleature consist in Whacever it
  56. Wril

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 127. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0143?run=74