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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 203

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  1. Names of mixed Modes.
  2. Species ever existec. Nto ean doubt, buc the Ideas oP Sacrilese, or A dul.
  3. cerr, mishe be Framed in che Mind oFMen, and have names given them;
  4. and (o thele Species oF mixed Modes be constitured, betore cicher of cheri
  5. ras ever corimitted; and mishr be as Well discoursed of, and realori-
  6. edabout, and as certain Truchs discorered ofchem, Wrhiilst ret etier hac
  7. no beins bur in the Inderstandine, a5 ell as noir that ther have but
  8. 100 Trequenely a real Fxistence: Wherebs ic is plain, hou much the
  9. Corts of mixed Modesare the Creatures of the Onderstandine. irhere they
  10. havea Beins as subserviene to all the ends oF real Fruths and Rnom ledee.
  11. asirhen chey really exist: And we cannot doube, Dut LaW-makers have
  12. olten made Lars about Species of Actions, hich vere onty the Creatures
  13. et their orn Onderstandino; Beinos that had no octier existence, but in
  14. cheir own Mincs. And, Lchink, no body can denz, buc thac the Relur-
  15. rection ras a Species of mixed Modes in the Mind, betore it realls existed.
  16. 9. 6. To sec hou arbitrarily these Pssences of mixed Modes are made Dy
  17. the Mind, re necd but talce a view ot almost any ol chem. A lietle
  18. lookino into them, will sarissie us, that eis the Mind, that combines seve.
  19. ral scattered independent Ldeas, into one complex one; and by the commoni
  20. name it gires them, matees them the fssence oF a certain Species, iehoue
  21. regulatins it self by any connexion chez hare in Nature. For Wrhat oreater
  22. connexion in Nature, has the Ldea OF a Man, than the Idea OF a Sticex
  23. Wrich Killins, chac this is made a particular Species oE Action, signitied
  24. by the word Murder and thC OEher HOF. Or Wrhat Vnion is thero in Na-
  25. ture, betreon the sdea oF eho Relaciom oF a Father, with Rilline, than FhaE
  26. OF a Son, or Neiphbour; that these are combined into orie complex Idea
  27. and thereby made the Essence oP the distinet Species Parricide, vhils thc
  28. others malse no distinet Species at all: Buc thouslither have made bil
  29. lins a MlanS Facher, or Mocher, 2 distinst Species trom Killins his Son, or
  30. Daughter; Vet in lome other cases, Son and Dausliter are calsen in t00.
  31. as Well as Farher and NTOTher; and ther are alL equally comprehen-
  32. ded in the lame Species, as in that oF Tncest. Thus the Mind in mixed
  33. Nodes arbitrarilr unires into complex Ldeas, sueh as it finds convenient:
  34. erhilst ochers that have altosether as much union in Nature, are lest
  35. loose, and never combined into one idea becaule they have no nécd oF
  36. Onenae. Tis erident chen, that the Mind by its trec choice, sires a
  37. connexion to a certain number oF Ideas; Wrhich in Nature have no more
  38. union with one anocher, than others chat it leaves out: Why else is the
  39. part of the Weapon, the besimnins of che Wound is ade rith, catsen
  40. notice of, to malse tho distinct species calld stabbine, and the Ficure
  41. anE NTaLEer OFthO WeaPON LCSE OuF: IdO not lay, this is dore wittont
  42. rea(on, as re Mall sec inore by and by: but this I CaY, chat it is done by
  43. thefreechoice of the Minc, pursuins its omn ends; arid chat theretore
  44. ttese Species olmixed MIodes, are the Workmanctrip of the Onderstar
  45. dino: And there is nochins more evidene, than that For the most part.
  46. in thc Framins these Ideas, the Mind searches not its Parterns in Nature,
  47. nor relers the Ldeas it makces ro thereal existence of Thines; DuE puIS
  48. such together, as mas best serve iis orn purposes, Withour cite it sel( 1o
  49. a precile intimation ol any thins thac really exicts.
  50. S. 7. BuE Choush these complex Ideas, Or Fsences of mixed Modes, de
  51. perid onthe Nsind, aud are made by it rich great liberes; vet cheyare
  52. not made at random, and jumbled eogertier wichout ary realon at aII.
  53. Thouchi these complex Ideas be not alivars copied trom Nature, vec etie
  54. are alrays suited to the end for rtich abstract ideas are made: And
  55. chouxh thes be Combiriaeions made oF Ideas, thacare loose crioueti; and
  56. have

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 203. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0219?run=74