An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 130
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- Wors, chat comes tothe pious Man, il he mistake, be the best chat the
- iricked can actain to, illie be in the riche, Who can without madness
- run the venture: Whoin his Nits rould chule eo connc within a portibi.
- lits oFinfinite Misery, which it he miss, there is yer nothins to De sorby
- thothazard: Whereas on the other (de, the lober Nan ventures nothing
- against infinite Ilappiness to be gor, if his Expectation comes t0 pals. IF
- the so0d Man be in the righi, he is eternalli hapor: it he mistakre, he
- is notmiserable, he feels nothino. On the other side, iFche Wicked bein
- the righe, he isnot happr: it he mistakre, he is infinitels miserable. Must
- it not bea most manisest irone Judement, that docs noc prelently lec,
- to rhich Cde, in this case, the preferenee is to be given. P haveForborn +0
- mention any ching ol thecertaines, or probability of a luture State, de
- sionins here eo Bew the vrons fudoment, thac any one must allour, he
- alces, uxon his omn Principles laid hor he pleases, Who presers the sort
- pleasures ol a vicious Lise upon ans consideration, Whilst he knoWs, and
- cannor but be certain, that a future Lise is at least possible.
- 6. 46. Onder ehis simple Ldea OF Porver, I have Faken Occasion FO ex-
- plain our Ideas oF Will, Volition, Liberty, and Necessity; Wrhich havine
- a greater mixture in them, than belones barely to simple Modes, miplit
- Perhaps, be better placed amonest the more complex. FOr Will, For ex-
- ample, contains in it the Ldea ot a Pover to preterthe doins, to thenot
- doins any parricular Action ((5 vice versa) trich it has thouxhton;
- erhich preserence is truly a Mode of Thinkins, and sothe Ldea Wrhichthe
- ord Will Aands For, is a complex and mixed one, made up ol the simmple
- Ideas oE Pover, and a certain Mode oF Thinking: and etre Idea ot Li-
- Berry is vet more complex, being made ux olthe Idea ot a Pover toact,
- ornot to act, in contformits to Volition. Bur E hoped this transgression,
- axainst the method i have propoledto my sel, Will be forsiven me, il I
- trave quitted ic a little, to explain lome Ldeas of great importance; such
- as are those oF the WilL Liberer, and Necessitr, in this place, Where ther,
- as ie vere, Offered themselves, and sprans ux from their prOPer rOOES. Be-
- Sides, having betore largels enoush instanced in several limple Modes;
- tothe Wrhat I meant by them, and how theMind goc them, (For I in-
- tend nOE tO enumerate alI the particular Ideas oF CacH (OTE,) these OF
- Willu Liberey, and Necessity, may serve as instances of mixed Mocles,
- ertrich are that sort ot Ideas I purpole next to treat ot.
- 5. 47. And ehus Thare, in a Mort drauxhe, siven a view ot our ori-
- sinal Ldeas, trom Whence all the rest are derived, and ot which chey
- are mace up; Which if P rould consider, as a Phrilosopter, and exa-
- mine on What Causes ther depend, and of what they are made, I be
- liere chey al misht be reduced to these rery tem primarr, and original
- OnCS, ViZ.
- Fxtension,
- Soliditr
- Mobilitys
- cub Cul dentes ne reccire trom Body:
- Thinkine, and the
- Pover of. Moving:
- by refection e receive trom our Mincs; to Muni ne add
- Existence,
- Duration,
- Number;
- urhiet belons boch to cu ente, ante e, ne llave, Fa,
- sinal
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 130. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0146?run=74