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8. If Reafon difcovered them, that would not prove them
innate.
9-11. It is false, that Reason discovers them.
12. The coming to the Ufe of Reafon, not the Time we
come to know thefe Maxims.
13. By this, they are not distinguished from other knowable
Truths.
14. If coming to the Ufe of Reason, were the Time of their
Discovery, it would not prove them innate.
15, 16. The Steps by which the Mind attains feveral Truths.
17. Affenting as foon as propofed and underflood, proves
them not innate.
18. If fuch an Affent be a Mark of innate, then that One
and Two are equal to Three; that Sweetness is not
Bitterness; and a thousand the like, must be innate.
19. Such lefs general Propofitions known before these uni- verfal Maxims.
20. One and One equal to Two, &c. not general nor use-,
ful, anfwered.
21. These Maxims not being known fometimes till proposed,
proves them not innate.
22. Implicitly known before propofing, fignifies that the
Mind is capable of understanding them, or else fig-
nifies nothing.
23. The Argument of affenting on first hearing, is upon a
falfe fuppofition of no precedent teaching.
24. Not innate, because not univerfally affented to.
25. These Maxims not the first known.
26. And fo not innate.
27. Not innate, because they appear least, where what is in-
nate fhows itself clearest.
28. Recapitulation.
SECT.
CHAP. III.
No Innate Practical Principles.
1. No moral Principles fo clear and fo generally received,
as the forementioned fpeculative Maxims.
2. Faith and Justice not owned as Principles by all Men.
3. Obj. Though Men deny them in their Practice, yet
they admit them in their Thoughts, answered.
4. Moral Rules need a Proof, ergo not innate.
5. Inftance in keeping Compacts.
6. Virtue generally approved, not because innate, but be
caufe profitable.
7. Mens actions convince us, that the Rule of Virtue is
not their Internal Principle.
8. Confcience no Proof of any innate moral Rule.
9. Inftances of Enormities practifed without Remorse.
10. Men have contrary practical Principles.
11-13. Whole Nations reject feveral moral Rules.
14. Those who maintain innate practical Principles, tell us
not what they are.
15-19. Lord Herbert's innate Principles examined.
20. Obj. Innate Principles may be corrupted, anfwered.
21. Contrary Principles in the World.
22-26. How Men commonly come by their Principles.
27. Principles must be examined.
CHAP. IV.
Other Confiderations about innate Principles, both fpeculative
and practical.
1. Principles not innate, unless their Ideas be innate.
2, 3. Ideas, especially thofe belonging to Principles, not
born with children.
4, 5. Identity, an Idea not innate.
6. Whole and Part, not innate Ideas.
7. Idea of Worship, not innate.
8-11. Idea of God, not innate.
12. Suitable to God's goodness, that all men should have an
Idea of him, therefore naturally imprinted by him;
anfwered.
13-16. Ideas of God various in different men.
17. If the Idea of God be not innate, no other can be fup-
pofed innate.
18. Idea of Subitance, not innate.
19. No Propofitions can be innate, fince no ideas are innate.
20. No Ideas are remembered till after they have been in-
troduced.
21. Principles not innate, because of little Ufe or little Cer-
tainty.
22. Difference of Mens Difcoveries depends upon the dif-
ferent Application of their Faculties.
23. Men must think and know for themselves.
24. Whence the Opinion of innate Principles.
25. Conclufion.
BOOK II.-CHAP. I.
OF IDEAS.
Of Ideas in general.
1. Idea is the Object of Thinking.
2. All Ideas come from Senfation or Reflection.
3. The Objects of Senfation, one Source of Ideas.
4. The Operations of our Minds, the other Source of
them.
5. All our Ideas are of the one or the other of these.
6. Obfervable in Children.
7. Men are differently furnished with thefe, according to
the different Objects they converfe with.
8. Ideas of reflection later, because they need attention.
9. The Soul begins to have Ideas, when it begins to per-
ceive.
10. The Soul thinks not always; for this wants Proofs.
11. It is not always confcious of it.
12. If a fleeping Man thinks without knowing it, the sleep-
ing and waking Man are two Perfons.
13. Impoffible to convince thofe that fleep without dream-
ing, that they think.
14. That Men dream without remembering it, in vam
urged.
15. Upon this Hypothefis, the thoughts of a fleeping Man
ought to be moft rational.
16. On this Hypothefis the Soul must have Ideas not de-
rived from Senfation or Reflection, of which there is
no Appearance.
17. If I think when I know it not, nobody else can know
it.
18. How knows any one that the Soul always thinks?
For if it be not a felf-evident Propofition, it needs
Proof.
19. That a man fhould be bufy in thinking, and yet not
retain it the next moment, very improbable.
20-24. No Ideas but from Senfation or Reflection, evident,
if we obferve children.
25. In the reception of fimple Ideas, the Understanding is moft of all paffive.
1. Uncompounded Appearances.
2, 3. The Mind can neither make nor destroy them
Of Ideas of one Senfe.
1. As Colours of Seeing, Sounds of Hearing.
2. Few fimple Ideas have Names.
Of Solidity.
1. We receive this Idea from Touch.
2. Solidity fills Space.
3. Diftinct from Space.
4. From Hardness.
5. On Solidity depends Impulfe, Refiftance, and Protru
1. Are the Operations of the Mind about its other Ideas.?
2. The Idea of Perception, and Idea of Willing, we have
from the Reflection.
CHAP. VII.
Of fimple Ideas, both of Sensation and Reflection.
1-6. Pleasure and Pain.
7. Existence and Unity.
8. Power.
9. Succeffion.
10. Simple Ideas, the Materials of all our Knowledge..
CHAP. VIII.
Other confiderations concerning fimple Ideas.
1-6. Pofitive Ideas from privative Causes.
7, 8. Ideas in the Mind, Qualities in Bodies.
9, 10. Primary and fecondary Qualities.
11, 12. How primary Qualities produce their Ideas.
13, 14. How fecondary.
15-23. Ideas of primary Qualities, are refemblances; of
fecondary, not.
24, 25. Reason of our mistake in this.
26. Secondary Qualities twofold; firft, immediately per- ceivable; fecondly, mediately perceivable.
1. It is the firft fimple Idea of Reflection.
2-4. Perception is only when the Mind receives the Im-
preffion.
5, 6. Children, though they have ideas in the Womb, have
none innate.
7. Which Ideas first, are not evident.
8-10. Ideas of Serfation often changed by the judgment.
11-14. Perception puts the Difference between Animals and
inferior beings.
15. Perception the Inlet of Knowledge.
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