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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 216

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  1. Names of Substances.
  2. TheT NOL. But iP the Enquiry be made concernins the suppoled real Fs.
  3. sence; and rhether the internal Constitution and Frame of thele several
  4. Creatures be speciticall different, it is Wholl impossible FOr US EO anLIVET,
  5. no pare ot that goins into our specitick Idea: Only e have RcaIOn tO
  6. thinlc, chat wrhere the Faculties, or outward Frame (0 much ditters, the in
  7. ternal Constitution is not exactly the lame: Buc whar difterence in the in-
  8. terrial real Constiturion, mates a specitick difterence, is in vain eo enquire;
  9. Wrhilt our measures of Species, BC, a5 they are, ontr our abstract Ideas,
  10. erhrich welenor; and not that internal Consticurion, nhich mates no
  11. part ot them. Strall the difterence of FTair only on the Skin, De a marte
  12. OFa different internal specitick Constitution between a Chanselino and a
  13. Drill, Whenthes agrec in Shape, and want of Reason, and Spcech: And
  14. Ball not the rant of Reason and Speech, De a sign to us os difterent reat
  15. Constitutions and Species, beeen a Chanselins, and a realonable
  16. Nlan: And (0 OF the rest, if e pretend, that the dictinction of Species
  17. is Axedly establistied by tho real Frame, and secret Consiturions ot
  18. ThinsS.
  19. 6. 23. Norletany one Pa, that the real Species of animals, are distin-
  20. suishe d by a Pover ol Propacation, by the mixture of Male and Female,
  21. and Plantsbr Sceds, For this vould helpus no Farcher, than in the dictin-
  22. Etion oEthe Species ot Animals, and Vegetables: Wrhac must ve do tor
  23. the rest. Nor is it sufficient in them: For il Eliltory lic not, Women
  24. have conceired by Drills,; and what real Species, by that meature, luch
  25. a Production will be in Nature, will be a nem Oueltion; and e have
  26. Realon co think chis not impossible, Cince Mules, and Cimars, the one
  27. Fromthe mixture ot an Hlorse, and an AIS, the other trom the mixture of
  28. a Bull, and a Mlare, are (0 Frequent in the Worla. Lonce laW a Creature,
  29. that avas the IITue oF a Cat, and a Rat, and had the plain martes ot
  30. both about it; Wrherein Nature appear d to have sollorred the pattern oF
  31. neither Tort alone, but to hare jumbledthem bochtogether.
  32. 6. 24. Opon therhole marter, tis cvident, that tis theiromn Collecti.
  33. Ons ot lensible Oualities, thar Men mabe the EMences of their several lorts
  34. OF Substances; and that their real internal Structures, are not consideret
  35. by the ereatelt part ofMen, in the Cortins them; much lels any substan-
  36. tial Forms erere ever thousht on branz, bue thole vrhohave in thisone
  37. part oftheW orid, lcarned the Languase ot the Schools: and yet thole
  38. ionorant Men, Who pretend nor ans inlixhit into chereal Fences, nor
  39. trouble themselres about subltantial forms, Luc are concent ich bno.
  40. ins Thinss one Trom another, by their senlible dualicies, are olten better
  41. acquainted ith their Ditterences; can more nicely diltinguistr themtor
  42. their uses; and berrer Hnow what they may expect trom cach, than
  43. those learned quicts-sishced Men, Who looi so decp intothem, and calle
  44. lo contidently ot Lomethins more hidden and eslential.
  45. 5. 25. But suppolins char the real Fsences oF Substances rvere dilcovera.
  46. ble, by chose, that vould leverely apply chemselves to that Enquiry; ret
  47. re could not reasonablss think, that the rantine of Thines under generat
  48. Names, vas reculated by thole internal real Constitutions, or aur chins
  49. elle but their obvious appearances: Since Languages, in all Countries,
  50. have been establithed lons belore Sciences; lo that ther hare not been
  51. Philosophers, or Logicians, or tuch wtro have troubled themlelves about
  52. Forms and Fssences, that hare made the general Names, that are in ule
  53. amonst the severel Nations oFMen: Bui thole, more or lels comprehen-
  54. sive rerms, have, For the mostpart, in all Languases, received their Birch
  55. and sienitication, trom isnorant and illiterare Pcople; who sorted and
  56. denominatec
  57. B.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 216. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0232?run=74