An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 131

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5. Chap. LLLII
6. Mixed Modes.
7. vinal Edeas on which the rest depend. For By chele, Timaxine, mig hED
8. explained the nature OF ColOurS, SovHdS, FastCS, SinelIS, and all Other
9. Edeas re have. it e hac but Faculties acure enouoh to perccive cho
10. severally modisiea FXtensiOnS, and Norions, oP these minute Bodies,
11. Wrhich producechose several Senlations in US. BuL ny present purpole be
12. ins to enquire ouly into thie Hnow ledse the Mind has oF Thines. by those
13. Ideas, and Appearances God has Arred it to receivetrom them, and hou che
14. Mind comes by that Hnomledge; racher chan inro their Caules, Ox manner
15. o Production, I Mall nOE, Contrars to the Delign OFthiS PPaY, set my
16. self eo enquire philolophically into tie peculiar Censtiturion oF Bodies,
17. and the Consisuration oF Parts, Whereby cher have the pOver tO pro:
18. duce in us the Ideas oE their sensible Qualities: I Mall nOL Cnter any
19. forthes into that Disquisition; it suficins to my purpose eo observe,
20. Thac G0Id, or Satron, BaS a pOver eO produce in us the Idea oE
21. Zello; are Snoi, or Milk, ehe Idea oF Whire; WticH ire Can Have
22. only br our Sighe, ithout examinins the Texture oF the Parts ol
23. hrse Bodies, or the particular FigurCS, Or Motion, oF the Parricles,
24. irtich rebound trom ehem, to cause in us that particular Sensation:
25. Though irlien ve so berond the bare Ideas in our Minds, and would
26. eriquire into their Causes, re cannot conceire any chine elle, to be
27. in aux sensible Object, Wherehy it produces diferene Ideas in uS,
28. bur che ditterent Bullc, Fixure. Number, Texture, and Motion ol its
29. BAbIC PAYES.
30. Ht A F. XXII.
31. Of Mixed Modess
32. Avins treaced oF Simple Modes in che Poresoins Chaprers, ance
33. siven several instances ot lome oF the most considerable ot
34. them, to thew wrhat ther are, andhor me come bythem; ve are nou in
35. thenext place to consider chole We call Mixed Modes, Tuch are the Com:
36. plex Ideas, we malce br the names Obligation, Drunbenness, 2 Lie, (oc.
37. nhichconsistine oFseveral Combinations of simple Ideas oF disserent trinds,
38. Thave called Mixed Modes, in distinguis chem From the more simple
39. Modes, Whichconsits onty oF simple Ldeas oFthe same kind. Fhese mixed
40. Medles beins also such Combinations ot simple Ideas, as are not loobcd
41. upon to bethe characteristical Marks of any real Beings that have a Aeady
42. existence, but scattered and independene Idcas, put rogecher by the
43. Mind, are thereby distinguisted trom the complex Ideas oF Substances.
44. 5. 2. Thar the Mind, in respeet ot its simple Ldeas, is Wholly pastive,
45. and receires them all trem the Existence and Operations oF Thiries, Puch
46. as Sensation or Reflection otersthem, without beines able to male any
47. One Ldea Experience Thews uS. But is we necentivels consider thele Ideas
48. E Call mixed Modes, we are now speatinq oF, e Mall snd chieir Orixinal
49. quire difterent. The Mind nere otten exercises an active Pover in thema-
50. kine these leverat combinations: For it being onice furnisted with simple
51. Ideas, it can put them tosether in several Compositions, and so makee
52. varietr oF complex Ideas, withour examining Whether thes exist so toge-
53. ther in Nature. And hence, Pthink, it is, that these Pore ot Ideas are
54. called Nocions; as il cher had cheir Orisinal, and constant Existence more

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