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14. If coming to the ufe of Reason, were the Time off
their discovery, it would not prove them innate.
15. 16. The steps by which the Mind attains fever-
al 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
thefe univerfal Maxims.

20. One and one equal to two, &c. not general, nor
ufeful, 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
elfe fignifies nothing.

23. The argument of affenting on firft-hearing, is up-
on 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 least, where what
is innate fhows itself clearest.

28. Recapitulation.

SECT.

CHAP. III.

No Innate Practical Principles.

1. No moral Principles fo clear and fo generally re-
ceived 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
because profitable.

7. Men's Actions convince us, that theRule of Vir-
tue is not their Internal Principle.

8. Confcience no Proof of any innate moral Rule.

9. Inftances of Enormities practifed without Remofe.
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,answered.
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 fpecula--
tive and practical.

SECT.

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 Goodnefs, that all men should !
have an Idea of him, therefore naturally im-

printed by him; answered.

13-16. Ideas of God various in different Men.

17. If the Idea of. God be not innate, no other can be
fuppofed innate.

18. Idea of fubftance, not innate.

19. No Propofitions can be innate, fince no Ideas are
innate.

20. No Ideas are remembered, till after they have
been introduced.

21. Principles not innate, because of little Ufe, or
little Certainty.

22. Difference of Men's Difcoveries depends upon
different Applications of their Faculties.
23. Men must think and know for themselves...
24. Whence the Opinion of innate Principles.
25. Conclufion.

A&

SECT.

BOOK II.-CHAP. I..

OF IDEAS.

Of Ideas in general.

1. Idea is the Object of Thinking.

2. All Ideas come from Sensation 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, accord-..
ing to the different Objects they converse with..
8. Ideas of Reflection later, because they need Atten-
tion.

9. The Soul begins to have Ideas, when it begins to
perceive.

10. The Soul thinks not always; for this wantsProofs...
11. It is not always confcious of it.

12. If a fleeping Man thinks without knowing it, the
fleeping and waking Man are two Perfons.
13. Impoffible to convince thofe that fleep without
dreaming, 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 most rational.

16. On this Hypothefis, the Soul must have Ideas not
derived 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..
20-23. No Ideas but from Senfation or Reflection,
evident, if we obferve Childrens

24. The original of all our Knowledge.

35. In the reception of fimple Ideas, the Underftanda-
ing is most of all paffive..

X

1. Uncompounded Appearances.

2, 3. The Mind can neither make nor destroy them
CHAP. III.

SECT.

Of Ideas of one Senfe.

1. As Colours of Seeing, Sounds of Hearing.
2. Few fimple Ideas have Names.

1. We receive this Idea from Touch..

2. Solidity fills Space.

3. Distinct from Space.
4. From Hardness.

5. On folidity depends Impulfe, Refiftance, and Bro....

trufion.

6. What it is...

SECT.

CHAP: V."

Of fimple Ideas by more than one fenfe.
CHAP. VI.

Of fimple Ideas of Reflection.

1. Simple Ideas are the operations of the Mind about
its other Ideas.

2. The Idea of Perception, and Idea of willing, we
have from Reflection.

CHAP. VII.

Of fimple Ideas, both of Sensation and Reflection
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1-6. Pleasure and Pain.

7. Existence and Unity.

8. Power.

9. Succeffion.

10. Simple ideas, the materials of all our knowledge.

SECT.

CHAP. VIII.

Other confiderations concerning fimple Ideas.

1-6. Pofitive Ideas from privative Caufes..
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 Qualites, are resemblances ;
of fecondary, not.

24, 25. Reason of our mistake in this.

26. Secondary Qualities twofold; firft immediately
perceivable; fecondly, mediately perceivable.
CHAP. IX.

SECT.

Of Perception.

1. It is the first simple Idea of Reflection.
2-4. Perception is only when the Mind receives the
Impreffion.

5, 6. Children, though they have Ideas in the Womb,
have none.innate.

7. Which Ideas first, is not evident.

8-10. Ideas of Senfation often changed by the Judg--

ment.

11-14. Perception puts the Difference between Ani--
mals and inferior beings.

15. Perception the Inlet of Knowledge.

SECT.

CHAP. X.
Of Retention.

1. Contemplation.

2. Memory.

3. Attention, Repetition, Pleasure, & Pain, fix Ideas.
4, 5. Ideas fade in the Memory.

6. Conftantly repeated Ideas can fcarce be loft.
7. In remembering, the Mind is often active.

8, 9. Two Defects in the Memory, Oblivion and
Slowness.

Of Difcerning, &c.

1. No knowledge without it.

2. The Difference of Wit and Judgment.

3. Clearnefs alone hinders Confufion..