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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 154

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  1. Relation.
  2. 5. 2. FTavins thus, trom irhat our sensesare able todiscover, in theopera-
  3. tions oF Bodies on onc another, gor theNorion ofCaule and Ffect; viz. Phat
  4. a Cause is that which makes any otherthing, cither simple idea Substance,
  5. or Mode, begin to bes and an FFoct is that, Which hac irs Beginning from
  6. Tome ocher thins, The Mind Cnds no great difficultr, to distinguisti the
  7. several OriginalS OF chings inEO tWO TOrIS:
  8. First When che thino is hollr made new, (o that no part thereot
  9. did ever exist besore; as Wrhen a neir Particle oF Matter doth begin E0
  10. exist, in rerum natura, wrhich had betore no Beins; and this ire caII
  11. Creation.
  12. Secondr, When a thing is made ux ot Partieles, Which did all oF them
  13. belore exist, but thatvery thins, so constituted of pre exictins Parricles,
  14. erhich considered altogether makre up such a Collection ot simple Pdeas,
  15. had notanr Existence betore, asthis Ban, this Fgg, ROsC, Or CherrY, (9c.
  16. And this, Wrhen reterred to a Substance, produced in the ordinary course
  17. oF Naturo, by an internal Principle, but set on worte by, and received
  18. trom lome external Agent, or Cause, and wortrins by insenlible mars,
  19. Wrhich re perceire not, re call Generation; When the Cause is extrinlical,
  20. and the Ffect produced by a sensible Separation, or juxta Postion ot diu
  21. scernable Parts, re callit Making; and such are all artificial things. When
  22. any simple Idea is produced, Wrhich ras noc in that subject before, ve
  23. call ic alteration. Thus a Ban is generated, a Dicture made, and cicher
  24. olthem altered, wrhen ans ner sensible dualier, or simple Idea, is produ-
  25. ced incither os them, Which vas not there belore; and che things thus
  26. made toexist, wtrich evere not chere betore, are ffects; andthole chines,
  27. erhich operated to the Existence, Causes. In Wrtrich, and all other C’ales,
  28. re may obserre, that the Norion oF Cause and F. Hect, has its rise From
  29. Ideas, receired by Senlation or Reflection; and that ehis Relation, Horr
  30. comprehensire loever terminates at last in them. For tohave the Idea ot
  31. Cause and Ffect, it suffices to consider any simple Ldea, or Substance, 25
  32. beginnins eo exist, br the Operation of some other, without bnorins
  33. the manner oF that Operation.
  34. 6. 3. Time and Place, are also the Foundations of very larse Relations,
  35. and aIl Ainite Beinos, at least are concerned in them. But havino alreadu
  36. Thewn in anocher Place, hor e sot thele Ldeas, it mas suffice here to
  37. intimate, thar most of ihe Denominations of thines, reccived trom time,
  38. are only Relations; thus, ertren anr one lays, that Dueen Flizabeth lived
  39. sixer nine, and reisned forey tive rears; these Words impore onty
  40. ehe Relation oF that Duration tosome other, and means no more but this,
  41. chat ehe Duration of her Existence ras equal to lizry nine, and the Dura-
  42. tion oFtier Government ro forey sire Annual Revolutions oF the sun; and
  43. Poare all Words, ansverins, hou long. Asain, William the Congueror inva-
  44. ded Fneland about the rear 1070. Wtrich means this; that talcing the
  45. Duration from our Saviours Time, till porr, for one entire great lenerh
  46. oF time, it ers at erhat distance chis Invasion was Trom the EVO Ex
  47. tremes: and (0 doall Nords oF rime, antivering to the Ouection when,
  48. ertrich sew onty che distance ot any point ottime, trom the Period ot a
  49. lonser Duration, From which re meature, and to which e thereby con-
  50. Tider ic, as related.
  51. G. 4 There are vet besides thole, other Nords of time, that ordinarily
  52. are chouohe to Rand for poltive Ldeas, Which vet ill, when considered,
  53. De found toberelatire, such as are roune. OId, erc. irhich include, and
  54. intimate the Rolation anr thinos has, to a certain length oF Duration,
  55. Whercos we hare che Ldea in our Minds. Thus havirs serled in our
  56. Thoushes
  57. I

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 154. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0170?run=74