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A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. 21

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  4. eF
  5. ne
  6. 10
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  8. ITe
  9. CM
  10. at
  11. DI
  12. Ne
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  18. O
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  26. our Porrers and P’aculties, and by Wrtrole
  27. Wisdom, Porer ard Goodnels, all things
  28. exist; for Perfection is only He hixhese
  29. Dogree, or the best Manner oF possible
  30. Fristence, and that the Eternal Source
  31. oF all Beine, must exist in the most Per-
  32. fect Manner possible, cannot De doubted,
  33. for there canirot be a freater Absurditr
  34. chan to suppose there mar be a more
  35. Perfect Beins, than the Fternal Source
  36. oF aIl Being. Thus re see hor the Idea
  37. (
  38. Cion, Tuch as re have, nar De
  39. derivd from sensarion and Reflection, anc
  40. arr one who considers it, will find,
  41. that ne has no positire Idca ol it,
  42. and that there is nothing in that Idea
  43. wrtrich ne has, but utrat the Objects
  44. without him,, or the l’aculties he per-
  45. ceires in himsele, have furnistrd him
  46. avith; and that therctore it is necdlels
  47. to Peck For any other Original oE it.
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  50. that it irultnecessarily be alcrib d to the
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  52. next consider the other part ot the Ke-
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A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. 21. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797937889:0033?run=74