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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 128

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  1. Will. since chat which is Future, ill certainty come to be prelent; and then
  2. having che same adrantase ofnearnels, ril Me its se lF in its Full dimen-
  3. Lions, and discover his wiltul mistalre, wrtro judsed ot it by unequal mea-
  4. Tures. Were the Pleasure of Drinkins accompanied, the verr moment a
  5. Nan calres ofFhis ClaIS, With thac sick Scomach, and atceing Flead, wtrien
  6. in fome Men are lure to follo noc mans hours alter, I think no bodr,
  7. hacever Pleature he had in his Cups, wonld, on chese Conditions, ever
  8. let Wine couch his Lips, Wtrichr vet he paily (vallos, and the cvil side
  9. comes to be chosen orly by the Fallaer ot a little difference in time. BuF
  10. if Pleasure or Pain can be (o leslened ontr by a tew hours removal, hou
  11. much more WiIl ic be (0, by a Farther distance, 102 MIan, thac will not (ly a
  12. due consideration, do, hac time ilI, 1. c. brino ic home uxon himselF) con
  13. sider it as present, and there calce its true dimentions: This isthe way
  14. e usually impose on our selves, in respect ot bare Pleature and Pain, orthie
  15. true derrees of Hlappinets or Milery: The future loses its just proportion,
  16. and What is prelent, obtains the preference as the preater. I mention nor
  17. here cheerons Judoment, Whereby the absent are noc only leslened, bue
  18. reduced to persect nothing; itren Nen enjoy What ther can in present,
  19. and malse lure ofthat, concludine amils, That no evil vill chence FoIlON:
  20. For chat lies noc in comparing the greatnels of future crood and Lvil,
  21. Which isthat re are here speakrins ol: Bur in anocher lort ofirons judo
  22. ment, Which isconcerning Ciood or Fvil, as it is considered, to be che
  23. cause and procurement ot Pleasure or Pain, that will follon tromit.
  24. 5. 42. The cause of our judgine amiss, wtien e compare our pre-
  25. Sent Pleature or Pain with future, scems to me to De the weat and narrou
  26. Constirutions of our Minds. We cannot ell enjoy tro eleatures at once,
  27. much less any Pleature almost, whila Pain pollelles us. The presene Plea
  28. sure, is it be noc very languid, and almost none ac aII, AIIS OUx narTOW
  29. Souls, and (0talces up aII our Minds, that it scarce lcaves any thouete
  30. Ofthings absent: Or it manr of our Plcasures arenot Arono enouxh to ex-
  31. clude the consideration ofthings at a distance; vet re havo (o freat an
  32. abhorrence oFlain, that a litrle of ic extinguistres all our Plealures. A litule
  33. bitter minoled in our Cup, leaves no relimr ot the sreet: and hence is
  34. Comes, thar at any rate re delire to be rid ol the present Fvil, which ve
  35. ore ape to thinle vothins absent can equal; since Wvhile the Pain remains,
  36. we find noc our selves capable of any the least deoree of Hlappinels. TTence
  37. we sce the present Pain, any one sutters, is altrays the orst; and tis rith
  38. anguim chey cry Ou. Any other rather than this; nothins can beso into
  39. lerable as what Y nou suffer. And theretoro our itrole Endcavours and
  40. Thoughrs are intent to set rid ofthe present Pvil betore all things, as the
  41. trst necelsarr Reprowards Iappiness, let wrhar ill Follo. Nothine, a5
  42. epassionately chink, can excecd, or almost equal the Pain e fect: and
  43. because the abstinenco trom a present Pleature chac ofters iE selF, is a POrt
  44. Otlain, nar, oltentimes a very oreacono, tisno onder, that that ope
  45. rates after the lame manner Pain docs, and lellens in our Thouxhus what
  46. is future, and so forces us, as it ere, blindtold into irs embraces. Thus
  47. much ot chie errono Judomient ve makre ot present and future Pleature
  48. and Pain, ivlien they are compared tocether; and (o the absent conside.
  49. red as future.
  50. 5. 43. TI. 45 +0 thines c00d or bad intheir Consequences, and by the apt.
  51. nels is in them to procure us 500d or Fvil in che suture, me judce amiss
  52. severat ways.
  53. F. When ve judse thac so much Eril does not really depend on them,
  54. aS in Truch CherCd0CS.
  55. L0N ACr

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 128. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0144?run=74