An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 149

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1. Collective Ideas ot Substances
2. even in thole, irhich scem most remote trom all e have to do with, ano
3. do intinitely surpals any chins, ve can perceive in our selves by Reflection.
4. or discorer by sensarion in ocher thinss, e can attain to nothine, bue
5. these simple Ideas, Which wre originally receivedtrom sensation, Or Reste-
6. ction, asis evident in che comiplex ideas we have ot Angels, and particu-
7. lariy oFGod himselF.
8. Thirdly, Tliat most oEche simple Sdeas, chat makee up our complex Ideas
9. ol Substances, Wrhen truly considered, are only Porers, holverer e are
10. apE to talse themtor volicire Dualities; v. 8. the grearelt part ot the Ldeas,
11. tliat makse our complex ldea ot Cold, are Zellomnels, sreat Weioht, Du:
12. ctility, Fusibilier, and Solubilier, in A9. Regia, (5c. aIl united together
13. in an unknorn substratum; all Whicti Ideas, are nothins else, but l0 ma-
14. ny relations to other substances; and are nor really in thc Gold it (elF,
15. thoush chey depend on thole real, and primary Qualities oF its internal
16. constitutiem, Wrherebs ic has a tirnels, difterently to operate, and be
17. Operated on by severa l other SubctanCeS.
18. Chrap.
19. CHI A P. XXIV.
20. Of Collective Ideas of Substances.
21. 5. X. ID Fsides these complex Ideas oF severat single Substances, a5 ot
22. esat Lak. Ciold, Violet, Apple, (5c. theMind hath allo com-
23. plex collective Ldeas Ot ubltanees; WhichiI (0 call, because sueh Ideas are
24. macle up ot mans parcleular Substances considered tosether, as united in-
25. to one Laea, and irhicisto joined, are loolced on asone; v. 5. te Idea OF
26. such d collection ot Men as matce an Army, though consistins oF a preat
27. number or distinct Subllakes, is as muctione Idea, as the Ldea ol a Man:
28. And the oreat collectre Laca oF all Bodies Whatloever sixnitied by the
29. name Worid, isas much one Ldea, 25 the Idea of any the lealt Particle of
30. Macter init; it sufticins, to che units ot any Idea, that it be considered
31. as one Representation, or Picture, thoush made ux ot never (0 manr
32. Particulars.
33. 5. 2. Fhese collective Ideas oF Substances, the Mind matres by irs
34. pover ot Composiion, and unitins severalls cither simple or complex
35. Ideas into onc, as it does, by the same Faculey, malse the complex Idéas ot
36. particular Subltanices, consistins of an agrrepare of divers limple Ideas.
37. united in one substance: And as the Mind by putting together the re-
38. Deaced Ideas oFVnity, maties the collectire Mode, or complex Idea ot
39. any number, a5 a SCOrC, Or a Crols, (5c. 50by putting cogether leve-
40. ral particular substances, it makres collectire Ideas oF Subltances, a5 d
41. Froop, an Army, a Swarm, a Citr, a Flcet 3 cach oF which, erery one
42. finds, thac he represents to his omn Mind, by one Idea, in one vier; and
43. founder that Nocion, considers the Thines themselves as perfectlr one
44. as one Strip, Or one Atom. Nor is it harder ro conceire, hom an Army
45. otren Thousand Men, Mould makre onc Idea, than hou a Nian Mould
46. milce one Ldea; it beins as easie tothe Mind, to unite into one, the Idea
47. Ot a great number ofMen, and consider it as onc; as it is to unite into
48. one particular, all the distin st Ldeas, that make up the composition oF a
49. Nan, and consider them altosether as one

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 149. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0165?run=74