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8. If Reafon discovered them, that would not prove ther
innate.
9-11. It is falfe, that Reafon 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 diftinguished from other knowable
Truths.
14. If coming to the Ufe of Reason, were the Time of their
Difcovery, it would not prove them innate.
15, 16. The Steps by which the Mind attains feveral Truths.
17. Affenting as foon as propofed and understood, 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 ufe-
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. Thefe Maxims not the first known.
26. And fo not innate.
27. Not innate, because they appear leaft, 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 Juftice not owned as Principles by all Men.
3. Obj. Though Men deny them in their Practice, yet
they admit them in their Thoughts, anfwered.
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 conving 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 Remorfe.
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 those 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 fhould 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 Subftance, 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 Discoveries 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 Sensation, 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 fleep-
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 vain
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 elfe 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,
obferve children.
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25. In the reception of fimple Ideas, the Understanding is most of all paffive.
1. Uncompounded Appearances.
2, 3. The Mind can neither make nor deftroy them.
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, Resistance, and Protru
fion.
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 Simple Ideas, both of Senfation 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 Simple 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 Senfation often changed by the judgment.
11-14. Perception puts the Difference between Animals and
inferior beings.
15. Perception the Inlet of Knowledge,