An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 339
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- Force in the mouth, or erritins ofhim that last made use ot it, chan in hi
- trom uhom he received il.
- 5. F2. The Probabilities e have hitherto mentioned, are only such
- as concern matrer ol faet, and such Thinss as are capable of Observation
- and Testimons: chereremains chat other fore, concernine Which, Meni en-
- tertain Opinions with variety of Altene, choush the Thines be such, thar
- falline not under the reachof our Senses, are not capable of Testimony; and
- such aro, r. The Fxictence, Nature, and Operations oF finite immaterial BC.
- inss withoutus; 2s Spiries, Angels, DerilS, (50. Or the Exiltence otmate-
- rial Beinss; Wrhich cither For their smalness in themselres, Or remoteness
- tromus, our Senses cannot rakie notice ot, as Whether there be any Planes
- Animals, and intellisent Inhabitanes of the Planers, and ocher Nansions
- Ot the vast Vniverse. 2. Concernins che manner oF Operation in most
- Parts oFche WorlEs OF Nature; Wherein chough re sce the sensible cects,
- vet their caulesare untenown, and re percere nor the ars and manner
- ho ther are produced. We sce Animals are generated, nourithed, and
- more; the LOad. Rone draws Iron; and che parts of a Cancle successively
- meltine, turn into Aame, and sire us both lighe; and heat. These and
- thelike Pfects e sce and hno: but the calses that operate, and the
- manner thes are producedin, e can only suels, and probably conjecture.
- For these and ehie like comins nor ithin the scruciny ot humane. Senles,
- cannot be examined by them, or be actested by any body, and theretore
- can appear more or less. probable, only as thes more or lels apreeto Truths
- thac are cstablistred in our Minds, and as ther hold proporrion to other
- Parts oF our tnom lecse and Observation. Analoey in thele mattersis the
- ouly help ve have, and eis trom thac alone re draw all our proundsot Pro-
- babilits. Phus obserrins that the bare rubbins ot ro Bodies violently one
- uxon another, produces heat, and very olten sire it selE, re have reaion to
- chint, chat irhat we call HTeat and Fire, consilts in a certain violene agitation
- OEthe imperceptible minute parts ofthe burning matrer: observins likevile,
- thac the different retractions oF Dellucid Bodies produce in our Fyes the
- ditterent appearances oF several Colours; and also that the difterent ran-
- sins and lazins che superticial parts of several Bodies, as OF Velvet, mate
- red Silli, (5c. does the libe, re thinte it probable chat the Colour and
- Minino oF Bodies, is in them nothine bue the difterent Arangement
- and Retraction oltheir minute and insensible parts. Thus findins in all
- the parrs of ehe Creation, that fall under humane Observation, that there
- is a gracual connexion of one with anochier, without any great or discer-
- nable saps betreen, in all that great variery ol Things ve sec in the
- Worla, irhichiare (0 closely linked togecher, that, in tlic several rankis ot
- Beinss, it is not ealie to dilcorer the bounds berixt them, wre have Rea-
- Son tobe perluaded, that in such senele steps Phines in Pertection alcend
- uxvards. Tis an hard Macter to say irhere Serilible and Rational Begin,
- and where Insensible and Trrational end; and who is there quick. sighted
- cnoush to determine precisely whichisthe loelt Species o livins Thines,
- and irtrich che tirst oFchole wrhich hare no Lise: ThingS, as tar aS We Can
- oblerre lessen and augment, as the quantity does in a regular Cone, Where
- thouoh chere beamanilest odds betrixt the bienels of the Diametre at re-
- ore distances: yet thedifterence betreen the upper and under, where
- cher touch onc another, is hardly discernable. Fhe difterence is excee
- dins creat betreen lome Nen, and Tome Animals: BuL il e will compare
- the Onderstandins and Abilities ol lome Men, and some Brutes, we aiI
- find so litele difterence, that trill be hard to lar, chat chat ofthe Nan is ci-
- cher ClCarer OT larGET: OblervinS, Llar, luel Gradual andsenrle delcenes
- donnrards
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 339. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0355?run=74