ESSAY

CONCERNING

Human Understanding;

WITH

Thoughts on the Conduct of the Understanding.

BY JOHN LOCKE, ESQ.

COLLATED WITH DESMAIZEAUX'S EDITION.

To which is prefixed,

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY AND FOR MUNDELL & SON, ROYAL BANK CLOSE,

1. An Inquiry into the Understanding, pleasant and useful.

2. Defign.

3. Method.

4. Ufeful to know the Extent of our Comprehenfion.

5. Our Capacity proportioned to our State and concerns,

to discover things useful to us.

6. Knowing the Extent of our Capacities, will hinder us

from useless Curiofity, Scepticism, and Idleness.

7. Occasion of this Essay.

8. What Idea ftands for.

SECT.

CHAP. II.

No Innate Speculative Principles.

1. The Way shown how we come by any Knowledge,

fufficient to prove it not innate.

2. General Affent, the great Argument.

3. Universal Confent, proves nothing innate.

4. What is, is; and it is impoffible for the fame thing to be

and not to be; not univerfally assented to.

5. Not on the Mind naturally imprinted, because not

known to Children, Idiots, &c.

6, 7. That Men know them when they come to the Ufe

of Reason, answered.