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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 355

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  1. 8
  2. Vrone Assent
  3. 5. 5. Secondly Those Eat vant sRill ro use those Fvidences theyhav
  4. ot Probabilicier, that cannor carry a train o Consequences in cheir Heauls,
  5. or reich exacy chepreponderanes et contrars Prooto anci Teltimonics
  6. mattine every Circumstance irs ciue altorrance, may be casils milled to
  7. aEenE Co PoSitions chat are nor probable. Fhere are some hen oF One,
  8. lome but ol trro Syllosims, and no more; and ottiers chat ean bue ad
  9. vance onestep Farther. These cannor alivars discern that Cide on Whicl
  10. ehe Sronsest Prools lic, cannor constanty tollon chac crhich in ies self is
  11. chemore probable Opinion. Now chat chere is fuehr a difterence between
  12. Men, in respect ol their Onderstandings, P ehink no body rill quection,
  13. rtiohas had any Conversation with his Neiohbours, though ne never
  14. WVas aE Westminster- FTaW Or the Pxchance on elio one hand, nOr aC ALNS-
  15. FTouses Or Bealam on the ottier; Wrhich great difference in MenS InFel
  16. lectuals, Whecher itriles fromany delect in che Organs oE the Body, par-
  17. ticularlr actapeed ro Thinkine, or in che dulness or untractableness ofthole
  18. Faculties, for ant oluse; Or, as lone tinkh, in tuenatural disterences ol
  19. Nens Souls chemselves, or some or all ol thele tOgetHer, IE IAEterS NOE
  20. here to examine: Only this is evident, that there is a disterence ot de
  21. grees in mens Understandinss, Apprehentions, and Reasoninzs, 1050
  22. Great a latirude, chat one may, rictioue doing injury eo Mankind, aftirm,
  23. chiat there is a freater distance betveen lome Men and orliers in this re
  24. spect, than Betreen some Men and fome BeaAs. But Bou chis COICS
  25. about, is Speculation, thoush ol great consequence, yet not necessary t0
  26. our prelent purpose.
  27. 9. 6. Thiraly, Lhere are anorher Pore of People that want Proofs, not becauie
  28. tHCY arE OUE OE Cheir reach, Dut because they will not use them: Who
  29. thouxh ther have Riches and leisure enouslu, and iant neixher PaIES nOr
  30. Fearnine, mar, vet chrouch their hor pursuit of Plcature, or Pulincls, or
  31. else out of lazinels or fear, chat the Doctrines, ertiose Fruch ther Mould
  32. enquire into, ould noc suit ell rith their Opinions, Lires, or Deligns,
  33. may never come to the knomledge of, nor sive their ANenE EO those PrO:
  34. babilicies Which lic so much within cheir view, that to be convinced ot
  35. them, ther need but turn their Fres ThaLWaY: But WeKnon LOme Men
  36. rill not read a Letter, Which is supposed ro bring ill ners; and many
  37. NTen Forbear eo Cast up cheir ACCOMPIS, Or (o much as chinkE uxon cheir
  38. Filtates, erho have reason eo fear their AAairS are nOF in a verv s00d po.
  39. Aure. FTo Ben, tiose plentitul Fortunes allow them leiture 1o iri-
  40. prove their Ondlerstandines, can Patissie themlelres with a lazy ignorance,
  41. TCannOE telI: But methinkscher have a lon Opinion of cheir Souls, W10
  42. lar out all their Incomes in Provisions tor the Body, and employ none
  43. et it to procure tho Means and FTelps ol Anoivledee; Wrhro talco sreat
  44. care to appear alrars in a neat and splendid ourlide, aud vould chinte
  45. chemselres miserable in course Cloaths, or a patched COar; and V et COn
  46. Eentedr sufter their Minds to appear abroad in a pie. Dald Liverr os course
  47. Datelies, and Borromed Shreds, such as it has pleased Chanco, or their
  48. Connerr. Failor, Imean che common Opinion ot thole chey have conver.
  49. sed witli, to cloath them. P Will noc heremention hor unreasonable chis
  50. is For Ben ehar ever think oF a future state, and their concernment in it,
  51. Wvhich io rationat Man can avoid to do sometimes: nor MaIII tale notice
  52. ertrat a strame and consution it is, co ehe sreacest Contemmers of RBOW.
  53. ledse, to be tound ignorant in Thines ther are concerned iO HnOW. B It
  54. this, Ae least, is rorch the consideration of those wtro calL chemselves
  55. Genlemen, Tharhoreverther may chinte Credit, Respect Porer, and
  56. auchorits che Concomicanis oE elicir Birch and Forurne, yer chey will
  57. find

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 355. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0371?run=74