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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 129

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  10. vet iF is BOF OFFhaE CertaInEY, DuE that it may ocherrise tall OuE; Or elie
  11. br lome means be aroided, as by industrr, address, chanse, reventance.
  12. CiC. Bur chat chese are wrons ays ot judsins, vere calie ta Me in
  13. erery particular, iE l vould examine them at larse linsly; but I Aallon
  14. ly mention this in general, viz. Fhat ic is a very errons, and irrational way
  15. ot procceding, to venture a greater C0od and Fvil, For a lels, upon uncer-
  16. tdin suelles, and belore due, and throushi examination, a5 tar a5 a Mans
  17. triorledge can, by any endeavours or altistance, attain. This, Ichinls,
  18. every one must contels, especialls it he considers the ulual causes oF this
  19. vrone Fadgment, Wrhereos chese follonins are lome.
  20. 5. 41. L. Tgnorance: Ile that judges without informine himselEro the
  21. utmost that heis capable, connor acquit himselt ot judoins amiss.
  22. TI. Tnadvertener: When a Nan overloolseventhat Wwtich he docskenon.
  23. This is an afte ced and presene Fenorance, Wrhich milleads our sudsments.
  24. as much as the other. Juclgins is, as it rere, balancine an account, and
  25. decerminins on rhich side the odds lies. IF cheretore cither side be hud-
  26. led up in halte, and several ofthe summs, that sould hare gone into the
  27. reckonins, be overlookd and lest out, chis Precipitaney caules as Wrons
  28. a fuctoment, as it it vere a pertect lonorance. Fhac Wvtrich molt com
  29. monly causes this, is the prevalenes of some presene Pleasure, heiphened
  30. by our sceble passionate Nature, most Cronsly irrovehe on by what is
  31. present. To check this Precipitanes, our Inderstandins and Reason
  32. Was siven us, it re will makre a ristut use ot it, toscarch, and sce, and
  33. then judge thercupon. Hou much Roch and neglisence, heac and pas
  34. sion, the prevalenes oE fastion. or aequired indispositions, do severalty
  35. contribute, on occaliorto chese irrons Judements, PMall not here Far.
  36. cherenquire.
  37. 6. 45. This, P chink, is certain, That the choice ofthe Nill is every. Where
  38. determined by the greater apparent Crood, horerer it may bevrone repre-
  39. Sented by the Oncerstanding; and ic vould le impossible Nen Mould
  40. parsue (0 ditterent Courses as thes do in the Worid, had ther nor ditte-
  41. rent Mleasures oF CroOd and Fvil. But vet Moralier, cMtablited upon
  42. its true Foundations, cannot but determine the Choice in ariy onc that
  43. Will but consider: and he chat will not be (0 tar a rational Creature, 25
  44. to restet serioustr uxon infinite (lappincls and Misery, mult necds con-
  45. demm himselt, as noc makina chat use ot his Vnderstandino he Bould.
  46. The Rewards and Punistiments ol another Lite, Which the Almiglty has
  47. ellablished as the Fnforcements ot his Lar, are of eiohe enouchr to de-
  48. termine the Clioice, against wrhaterer Pleasure or Pain this Lile can Meir,
  49. When the eternal State is considered in its bare possibilier, Whichno Body
  50. con deny. He chac will allor exquisite and endlels (lappinels to be but
  51. the polsible consequence ot a sood Lite here, or the contrary late the
  52. possible Reward ot a bad one, must omn himselt to judse very much a
  53. mils, is hedoesnor conclude, Thac a verruous Lite, rith the certain ex-
  54. pectation ot everlastine Bliss, wrhich may come, is to be preterred to a vi
  55. Cious ene, With tho scar oF that dreadsul stare oF Milery, irtich Tis ver
  56. Poltible may overtalce the guilty; or at best the terrible uncerrain hope oF
  57. Annibilation. This is evidently s0, thoueh the vertuous Lile here had
  58. nochins buc Pain, an. L the vicious continual pleasure; Wrhich vet is Forthe
  59. most pare quire ochervise, and wicked Men have not much the odds to
  60. bras et, eren in cheir present possettion; nay, all chines righels consi-
  61. dered; hare, Pchink even the Norse part here. Bucwwhen inhnite FTa0-
  62. pinclo is put in onc deale, ascinlt idtnite Mtileru in ehe orlier; it M
  63. rorst

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 129. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0145?run=74