An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 286
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- Realiey ot Lnovledge
- Copies, areyet the Subicets of real (as tar as Wre have any) Rnomlecoe et
- them; erhich (as has been alreads Peed) rill noc be tound torcachvery
- Far: But so tar as it does, it will Aill be real Knom ledse. Whatever Ideas
- re have, the Aorcement re find ther have rith others, ill Sis BC
- Hnomledse. IFthose Ideas be abstract, it ill bc gencral Rnomledse.
- But tomalie it real concernins substances, the Ldeas mult be tatten from
- thc real existence of Things; prhatever simple Ldeas have Been Founc to
- coexist in any Substance, thele e may, with contidence join togecher
- again, and so matse abstract Fdeas oF Substances. Por wharever haveonce
- had an union in Nature, may beunitedasain.
- 8. X3. This, iF werighely consider, and confine not our Thouchis and ib-
- Aract Ideas +o Names, as il there rvere, or could be no otter sorts of
- Thinss, chan wrhat lnown Names had already determined, and as it vere
- TEE OUE, ve Mould think oF Things with greater frecdom and less consu-
- Tion, chan perhaps wo do. Fvould postibly be thoushe a bold Paradox, it
- HOE a very danserous Falood, it PMhould lay, that some Chansclings;
- Wrho hare lived torer vearstogether, ithout any appearance ot Realon,
- are omethine betreen a nan and a Beast: Which prejudice is founded
- upon nothinq else buc a false suppolition, that these tiro Names, Man
- and Beast, Sand For distinct Species (0 set out by real FSences, that there
- con comeno other Species vetreen them: Whereas il re rill abstract
- from those Names, and the Supposirion of tueh specifick F. Penices made
- by Naturo, Wherein alt Things of the Came Denominations did exactly
- and equally parcalce; is we vouldnor tansie, that there ere a certain
- number of chole Fssences, Wherein allThinss, as in Molds, ere cast andtor-
- med, We Mould snd that the Idea ofthe Strape, Motion, and Lite oF a Man
- wichiout Reason, is as much a distinct Idea, and mabes as much a dictinct
- Port ol Thinestrom Nan and Beast, as the Idea of the Shrape ol an AIS
- rith Reason, rould be different trom cither that ot Man or Bealt, and
- be a Species ot an Animal betreen, or distinct lrom both.
- 8. 24. FIoro every Body ill be ready to astr, il Changelines ma bc
- supposed somothine betreen Nan and Beast; Pray irhat are they: V
- anliver, Chancelines; irhich is as good a Word to lignitie Lomething
- difterent trom the sixnitication oE M AW on B P AST, aS the Names
- Han and Bealt are to have signitications difterent onc trom the other.
- Fhis, trell considered, vould resolve this matter, and Mer my meanine
- wirtiout any more ado. But I am not (0 unacquainted wich che
- Zealot lome Men, Which enables them to spin Consequences, and to see
- Religion chreatned irhenerer any one ventures to quit tneir Formsof
- Speaking, as not to sorelce What Names such a Proposition as this is like
- to be charged itk: And rithout doubt ic rill be askred, IE Changelings
- are lomethins beteen Man and Beast, irhat will become of them in the
- Ortior Worid : lPo Wrhich Tansiver, T. IE ConcernS me nOt to KnOW or
- enguire. Totheir omn Master chey Aand or FalI: It ill malie their cate
- neither berter nor vorse, Wrhether e determine anr thing of it, or no:
- They are in the hands ol a Paiehtul Creator and a bountitul Father, Who
- disposes not ofhis Creatures accordins to our narror Thoughs or Opi-
- nions, por distinguisres elem accordinq to Names and Species oF OuF C On-
- erivance. And we that Hnow so lictle of this present Worid Weare in, mar,
- Tehinte, Content our sclres without being peremprory, in definins the
- ditterent Bate Creatures Ball come into, Wrtren cher s0 oA this Stage.
- IE May sustieo us, that hehach mace knorn to all thole, Wrho are capable
- os Tnltruction, Discourso, and Rcasoning. that they Mall come eo an ac-
- coune, and receive accordins r0 what ches have done in Eliis Bod7.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 286. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0302?run=74