14. If coming to the use of

reason were the time of

their discovery, it would

not prove them innate.

15, 16. The steps by which the

mind attains several truths.

17. Assenting as soon as pro-

posed and understood,

proves them not innate.

18. If such an assent 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 less general propofi-

tions

9. The soul begins to have
ideas, when it begins to
perceive.

21. Principles not innate, be.

cause of little use or lit.

tle certainty.

10. The soul thinks not al-
ways; for this wants
proofs.

11. It is not always conscious
of it.

12. If a fleeping man thinks

22. Difference of men's dis-

coveries depends upon the

different applications of

their faculties.

23. Men must think and know

for themselves.

24. Whence the opinion of

innate principles.

25. Conclufion.

without knowing it, the

sleeping and waking man
are two persons.
13. Impossible to convince
those that sleep without
dreaming, that they think.
14. That men dream without
remembering it, in vain
urged.

15. Upon this hypothesis, the
thoughts of a sleeping man
ought to be most rational.
16. On this hypothesis the

soul must have ideas not
derived from sensation or
reflection, of which there
is no appearance.
17. If I think when I know
it not, no body else can
know it.

18. How knows any one that
the soul always thinks?
For if it be not a self-evi-
dent proposition, it needs
proof.

19. That a man should be busy
in thinking, and yet not
retain it the next mo.
ment, very improbable.
20-23. No ideas but from sensa-
tion, or reflection, evi-
dent, if we observe chil

dren,

24. The