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M E T A P I1 Y S

e s_

I'roceed to gi.e lhe fub(l.nce of ",ha, Mr Locke has de–

Jivered upon

it.

id~nJ

g~neral.

alld

Ihtir

origÍluf/.

By lht:

terOl

idea,

defintd by Mr Locke,

is mcant

whatcvcr is tht: objcél: of

Ihe

undcrlbnctjng ~v.'hcn

I1\il.O

thinks . or

whallvt:r

is which ,he mind can be cm;loyed

..bout in lhinking.

In order

trace the manner

WhlCh

we acquirelhefe–

ideas, Jet

liS fllppofe

(he

nlind

to he, as we fay.

''l.l.'hfll

pop!r,

"oid of all ch:\raél:t!rs, withou[ any

idear:

ho\'l

COmes il to

be furn irhed? whencc has it all the material,

r~aron

and knowlt:dge? From

exp:ricnu

and

ob/uva.

,ioll.

This, when employt:d ..bout external

fealibl e!'"

ob–

j eéls, \Ve nl.y call

fin[a lion:

by ,his \Ve have lhe idea.

óf

bilt!r,

/<1'(:(/,

Jcllo'W, hará,

&c. wh¡ch are common–

Iy called

[mjihl. qua/ili'!,

becaufe conveyed inlo .he miod

by the f"nf<s.

The fame experience, \Vh., employed

about

lhe

¡ntcoroal operation,s of the mind, perceived and

rc:~ed

us, we may caJl

r~j1etlion:

hence we ha\'e

the

ideal

peraJ/ion, IhinHng, doubling. 'lJJjlling,

rea/óuilJg.

&c.

Thefe (\Vo, viz.

ex(ern.d materiallhing'

as the ob·

jeéts of fenfation,

an<tlhe

operalíonl

tJf

our (J'Wn

mi~/dl

the objeéls of reflcaion,

are

lhe onJy

origina/¡

from whence

al! our

idenl

take thei r beginnings: lhe underflanding

f¿ems nOl to

have

the

leaO: glimmering of

idenl.

which

.doth

nOl

receive from ene of theCe twa

flurco.

Thefe,

when we have taken a ful!

fur.ey

of them, and their fe ·

'Teral

modu

and

compofitioDS, we

(hall fin'd

to conuin

our

whole fiock of

¡de/II;

and that we have notbing in our

.miod! which did

001

come in ene of theCe two wáys.

is evideot, Ihat chiJdren come

degrees to be fur–

nifhed

witll.

¡del"~

from lhe objeéh they are converfaot

wilh : they are fo furrounded wirb bodies .ha, p·erpe,ualJy

.and diverfely a/feél them, thar fome ideas \ViII (whether

they will or no) be

imprin.ed

their mind..

Lighl

aod

CQ/ourl,

found,

aod

lallgihle

qu::lities, do cootiou<\Jly fo·

Jicite lheir proper reofes. and force an enlri\nce into the

mind .

is lale, commonl,y, befare

chiláren

come to have

¡Jeal

of the operations of their minds

and fome men ha ...e

not ..ny very clear or perfeé!

ideal

of the greald! part of

.hemall

th~i r

live. : becaufe, ,hough ,hey paf. there coo·

,ioually, yel, like Ooaring vifions, (hey m. ke no' deep

imprefTians enollgh to leave in the miod clear and laa¡ng

ideal,

till lhe uaderlb.ndi,ng turns inward upon itfelf,

a.nd

refle;:ds

its

own operation, and maItes them the ob..

jeas of iIS o\Yo conlemplation.

When a man

firJI

pe,.ceivu,

,hen he m.y be fJid

to hnve

ideal;

having

ideol,

and pcrceptioo, fignifyiDg the fame

tning.

)imp/e ideal.

ideas , fome:

arejimple,

olhers

camplex.

AJim,

pIe

idea

is one uniform :lppcarance or cOOl:eptioD io the

mino, which is not diflinguifhable iOlO difFt!reot

idetll.

Such are the

ideDI

[o!fiUe

quu/iliu..

which though

t hey are in ,he thing. lhemrelves fo

uni.ed

and blended,

that there is no fe;:p \f;:ttion, no diClaoce between

th~mt

yet the

ideal

lhcy produce in the mind enter by lhe fen.

{e.

limpio and uhmixcd. Tbus, though the baDd f"els

flftneft

and

ru'onlJth

in (he r.uae piece of

'WQX,

yet the

fi"'f/~

idtal

thus unil cd in ,he fJme fu!:>jc:ét are as per–

f<ét ly

dijh.,rl

as -.hofe .har

·co.me

in by

~I!f"ent

fenfu_

l 'nefc

JiJllt/~

id,'(u

are

{uFi~ened

no other

W¡jY lhao

from rhe

tWO

ways above- me;:n&.ioD{d,

(liz . ftnj3/1Qn

and

" r~Jlc{l

¡Gil.

The mind

bei~g

once (lord with the)im¡>/e

id,al,

!fa•

the

power

repe~t.

compare, and unite thcm to an

io–

finir~

v:uiety;

and

C3n makc:', at ple,,(urc, new

CQm.

p/~x ié~aJ.

But theJlloll enlarged unuc::r(lalllhng cannoe

fra

Ole

une

new)imple

idea;

nor bX any force ddlroy (herIl

that are (here.

ideal

en.

fonfo.

IDBAs, with réference tO che different ways wherein

th~y

appf'oillch lhe

minO,

are

offourforlJ.

Phjl,

There are ¡ome which come ioto our miods

on.

fonft

ooly.

S~cC;lJdly,

There are olhers cODveyed iDto the miad

tIIore fiu/u (han one.

Thir"{J ,

O lhers lllat are had from

rej1dlion

only_

Fourl hly,

There are fome fuggened 'o lhe mind by.1I

the \Vays of

[enf.,'ion

and

rrj1rnien·.

Firll. fome emer ioto the mind only by ODe feore pecu–

liady adapted

rect:ive

t~em.

Thus colours, founds,

fmells , &c. come in ooly by the

ey.es.

can, and nofe.

And if .hefe organo are .ny of lhem fo difordered as oot

perform their fundioos, thlo.':Y have no other way tO

bring ,heOlfel,.. in view, and be perceived by lhe uoder–

lIanding.

We !hall here mention one, whit:h we receive

our

touch, becaufe' it is one of the chief ingredients- in many

of our complex ideas; and that is, ,he idea of

[aU"iIJ :

arires from the refifiance ooe body makes tO the en"

trance of .nother body in.o lhe place it po{fe{fes, till it

has left ir. There is no idea whlch we more conflantly

receive from fenf.t.tion than this. ID whatever ponure we

are, we feel famewhat that fupports us, and hiaden us

from finking

downwar~s:

and ,be bodies we daily hao–

dIe, make us perceive. that while

"'~hey

remain between

them. they do, by an unfl1rmouDtable force, hioder the

approaeh of .he parts of our hands that prefs lh.m.

This feeOl. 'o be ,he mu(l e{fenlial properey of body,

and lh., whereby we eonceive it to

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fpace: the idea of

which ¡s, that where we im),gine any fpace taken up by a

folid (ubílance. we cooceive it fo to pollefs ¡t, 'tha,

ít

. "elude> all olher folid fubllance>. Th is refinaneo is fo

grea" that no force can (urOlOUDt it,

the bodies in

the world prdling a

d,!op o/

'OJal<,

on all lides, will oe'

ver bé able

overcome rhe re(j(hnce

i1..

makes to their ap"

proaching one another, tiB it be re,moved out of their way.

The iJea of

[o/idiIJ

is ditlingudhed from .h.. of

PUrl

JPau,

io as much as this

lallu

is ne¡ther capable of re(jCf:..

ance nor motion:

ddtinl~ui(hed

from

I.nrdnifi.

in as

much as haruoefs is a lirm cohcfioD of

t"~

folid pans of

m.tter m.king up ","{fes of a fenlibh uulk. fo .hal .he

whole doth nOI catily change in fi &u.e

InJced,

hard

aod

10ft,

as cüm010ñly apprcheodcd by us. are but

rrla ..

fue to

lhe conftllulions

()f

our bodics: that being called

hard

which \ViII put us

p.lin fooner tlidn change its figure

l>y

the pre{furc of any

pOI

t of our bod:cs ¡ and tlral/0ft,

wh.cI