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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 277

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  1. Fxtent ot Llumane Pnomledee
  2. verse may have, by che Altistence oF Senses and Faculcies, more or per-
  3. fecter than ire lare, or different trom ours, tis not For us to derermine.
  4. Buc 10 PaY, Or chink there are no such, becaule e conceive nochine oF
  5. ehem, is no better an Arsument, than il a blind Man Mould be politire
  6. in it, char chere ras no such thins as Sislit and Colours, because. hie had
  7. no manner oF Idea ot any such thing, nor could by any means Fraime to
  8. himselt any Notions about Secins. Thelgnorance, and Dartinels that is
  9. in us, no more hinders nor contines the Rnom ledse chatis in ottiers, than
  10. the Blindnels of a Mole is an argument against the quick lichrednels oF
  11. an Fagle. He thar Will consider ehe intinire Porer, Wisdom, and Good.
  12. hess ot ehe Crearor oF all Things, Will find Reason eo think it Wvas noc all
  13. laid out upon so inconsiderable, mean, and impotent a Creature, as HC
  14. Wwill And Nan Eo be; Who in aII probabilitr, is one ot the lowest ot al
  15. intellectual Beings. What Faculties cheretore other Species ol Creatures
  16. have to penetrate into the Nature, and inmost Constitutions ol Things;
  17. Whac Ideas they may receive of them, tar different trom ours, We rnon
  18. nOt. This we Know, and certainy tind, that re rrant several otter viens
  19. oF them, besides those re hare, to malie Dilcoveries oF them more per-
  20. fect. And We may be convinced thac the Pdeas we can attain toby our
  21. Faculcies, are very disproportionare ro Thines themlelres, wrhen a politive
  22. clear distinet onc oF Substarice it selE, Wrhieh is the Foundarion of aII
  23. the rest, is concealed trom us. But want of Ideas oF this bind,
  24. Deins a Part, as vell as Cause oF our lgnorance, cannor be described.
  25. Onty chis, Tthink, Imay contidently Pay ot ic; Thacthe incellectual and
  26. sensible Worid, are in ehis perfectiy aliko; Thac thac pare ertrich we sce
  27. oF cirtrer of ehem holds no provortion wich what e sec not; And What
  28. loerer re can reach with our Lyes, or our Thouxtus ol cither ol them,
  29. is bur a point, almost nochins, in comparison of the rest.
  30. 8. 24. Secondly. Another Great C aule OF LgnOranCC, is the vant of Ideas
  31. veare capable of. ASthe vant oF Ideas, Wrhich our Faculcies arenot able
  32. eo sive us, Muts usiholly trom thole viers oF Things, irhich tis reaso-
  33. nable tothink, other pertecter Beings than me hare, ot irhich e lnoir
  34. nothing; (0 che Want of Ideas, Pnow speak oF, Keeps us in Tenorance ot
  35. Thinos, e conceire capable of beins bnomnto us. Bulk, tigure, and
  36. Morion, We have Ideas ot. But though re are not wichoue Ideas of thiele
  37. primary Jualicies of Bodies in general; vet not knomins erhat is the par-
  38. cicular Bulk, Figure, and Motion, ot the srearest part ol the Bodies ot the
  39. Universe, Wve are ignorant ot che several Povers, PAicacies, and Ways ot
  40. Operacion, Wrhereby the Lfects re daily sec, are produced. Thele are
  41. hid fromus in some Thines. By Beine 10o remote; and in others, by beine
  42. 500minute. When re considerthe rast diltance of the knoun and vili.
  43. ble parrs ofthie Worid, andche Realons we have tothinte, chat ihat lies
  44. richin our Ren, is but a Imall part of the immense Vniverle, We Mall
  45. chen discover an huse AByIs oF Tonorance. What are the particular La
  46. bricles ofthe great Masses oF Macter, Which malre ux the itiole supendi
  47. ous frame ot corporeal Beines; hor tar they are extended; What is their
  48. Notion, and hou continued, orcommunicared; and wrhat Influence they
  49. nave one upon another, are Conremplatioris, thar at tirst slimpse our
  50. Thouotes lose chemlelres in. IE e narror our Contemplarion, ind
  51. contine our Thoughes to this little Canton, I mean this Syltem ot oije
  52. Sun, and the grosser Masses otMaeter, that visibly more about it, irtat
  53. several soris ot Vegetables, Animals, and intellectual corporeal Beines, in
  54. Ainitely different trom chole oF our licrle spor ot Farrh, may probably be in
  55. che other Planets; to the Knomledee otwhich, even ot icir outrard
  56. Fixures
  57. t

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 277. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0293?run=74