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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 270

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  1. Fxtent of Tlumane Rnorledee.
  2. d
  3. Syltem, Interest, or Party, ther are once engaged in. But vet aster
  4. all, PehinLePmay, ithout injuri to humane Persection, De contident,
  5. that our Knomledse ould nerer reach to all emighe detire to knor con-
  6. cernins those Ideas e have; nor De able to surmount allthe Disficulties,
  7. and resolre all the Ouections misht arise concernins any ot them. We
  8. havethe Ideas oF a Square, aCircte, and squality; and Vet, Perhaps,
  9. Mallrerer be able to find a Cirele equal to a Square, and certainlr HnoW
  10. that it is (0. We hare the Ldeas oF Master and Thinking, Duc possibly
  11. Arall never be able to kno, Whether Marter thinks, Or no; it beins
  12. impolsible for us, by the contemplation ot our ovn Ideas, without reve-
  13. lation, ro diseover, Whether Omnipotener has siven to Matter Aly dis-
  14. poled, a porver t0 perceive and chinke, or elle joined and Axed tO Matter
  15. (o dispoled, a thinking immaterial Substance: IE beins cqually calie, in
  16. respect ot our Norions, toconceire, that COD can, il he pleases, su-
  17. peractd to our Idea oF Macter a FaculEY oF Thinting, as that he Mould
  18. Superadd to it another Subltance, rith a Faculey ot Thinkine; linco re
  19. lnom nocwherein Thinhins contilts, nor eo wrhar sort of Substances thie
  20. Almigher has been pleased to sire chat porver, irhrich cannot be in any
  21. crested Being, but meerl by che good Pleasure and Bountr of the Crea-
  22. FOr. For Whar asturance of Rnomledse can ans one hare, that certain
  23. Thoughis, such a5, V. 8. Pleasure and Pain, Bould notbe in Body it Ccli,
  24. alter a certain manner modihied and moved, as well as that ie Bould Be
  25. in an immaterial Substance, uxon the Motion ot the parts os Body: MO-
  26. tion, accordins tothe urmost reach of. our Ideas, beins able to produce
  27. nothins bur Motion, (o that wrhen e allor it ro produce Plcature or
  28. Fain, or the Idea or a Colour, or Sound, me are tain to quit our Rea-
  29. Pon, 50 verond our omn Ideas, and actribute it wrholly to the good Plea-
  30. Ture oF our Paker. For since re must allor he has annexed FFects t0
  31. Morion, Which We can no ar conceire Motion able to produce, What
  32. Realon hare irero conclude, that he could not order them as well eobe
  33. produced in a Subject re cannot conceire capable of them, a5 Well a5 in
  34. a Subicet re cannor conceire the motion ot Matier can anx az ope.
  35. rate upon: I Cay not this, that I vould any ray lessen the beliet ot
  36. the Souls Immaterialitr: Pam not here speatrine of Probabilitr, bue
  37. Hnomledoe, and I think not onlr, that ic becomes the Modestr ot Phi-
  38. losoptr, noc to pronounce MasilteriallY; ihere we rant that Lvidence
  39. that con produce Rnomledoe; but also, that it is oE ule to us, to discern
  40. hor Par our Rnomledse does reach; For the Ctare e are at present in,
  41. not beins that ol Vilion, e must, in mans Things, content our selves
  42. rith Faith and Probabiliey: And in the present Ouection, about theim-
  43. materiality os the Soul, it our Paculties cannot arrive at demonstratire
  44. Cerraintr, We necd nor think it stranse. AI the great Fnds oF MOra-
  45. lier and Religion, are ell enoush sccured, ithout philolophical Proots
  46. oF the Soulsimmateriality; sinco it is evident, that he wto made us at
  47. first Desin co subsist here, sensible intelligent Beings, and For several vears
  48. continued us in such a state, can and ill rectore us to the like Ctate oE
  49. Sensibilier in anocher Worte, and matie us capable chere to receire the
  50. Retribution he has designed to Men, accordins to their doines in this
  51. Lite. But to return to the Aroument in hand, our Rnomledge, IlaY, I5
  52. noc ontr limited to the Paucits and Imperlections of the Ldeas we have,
  53. ard Wrhrich re emplor it about, but even comes Mort oF that t0O: BUE
  54. horr Car it reaches, let us nor enquire.
  55. 5.7. Fhe aftrmations ornesations We makre concernins the Ideas rehave,
  56. mas, ad L have betore incimated in general, be reduced ro these Tour forrs,
  57. Vin

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 270. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0286?run=74