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501 III, II | the same names that other men do, it is still to his own 502 III, II | supposed to be in other men’s minds. But though words, 503 III, II | words, as they are used by men, can properly and immediately 504 III, II | the minds also of other men, with whom they communicate: 505 III, II | two languages. But in this men stand not usually to examine, 506 III, II | which the understanding men of that country apply that 507 III, II | things. Secondly, Because men would not be thought to 508 III, II | immediately the signs of men’s ideas, and by that means 509 III, II | the instruments whereby men communicate their conceptions, 510 III, II | perfectly; it often happens that men, even when they would apply 511 III, II | some, not only children but men, speak several words no 512 III, II | said, come to excite in men certain ideas so constantly 513 III, II | But that they signify only men’s peculiar ideas, and that 514 III, III | with: every bird and beast men saw; every tree and plant 515 III, III | easily find a reason why men have never attempted to 516 III, III | the chief end of language. Men would in vain heap up names 517 III, III | communicate their thoughts. Men learn names, and use them 518 III, III | And therefore, in these, men have for the most part stopped: 519 III, III | reason; they being such as men have often an occasion to 520 III, III | have to mention particular men, we should have proper names 521 III, III | this is the way whereby men first formed general ideas, 522 III, III | of such an enumeration, men have accustomed themselves 523 III, III | a plurality; for man and men would then signify the same; 524 III, III | ones are often, in several men, different collections of 525 III, III | to no more but this:—That men making abstract ideas, and 526 III, IV | wrangling and obscurity in men’s discourses, whilst some 527 III, IV | with rackets against some men’s foreheads, whilst they 528 III, IV | suitable to those in other men’s minds, when they use those 529 III, IV | for one simple perception, men for the most part easily 530 III, IV | unpleasant enumerations, men would comprehend both white 531 III, V | but it suffices here, that men have put together such a 532 III, V | species themselves are of men’s making. Evidently arbitrary, 533 III, V | be framed in the minds of men, and have names given them, 534 III, V | species of mixed modes, men have had regard only to 535 III, V | purpose. It suffices that men make and name so many complex 536 III, V | discourses: whose names, when men come curiously to compare 537 III, V | Suitable to this, we find that men speaking of mixed modes, 538 III, V | provided for ideas which men have frequent occasion to 539 III, V | inculcated, because the faults men are usually guilty of in 540 III, V | thought of as to pass for it. Men would often see what a small 541 III, V | this subject, I can make men reflect on their own use 542 III, VI | collections of ideas as men have made, and not on the 543 III, VI | as some that are called men: and the animal and vegetable 544 III, VI | they seem to belong.~18. Men can have no ideas of real 545 III, VI | asked whether these be all men or no, all of human species? 546 III, VI | by the name, agrees, are men, and the other not. But 547 III, VI | sensible qualities that men make the essences of their 548 III, VI | by the greatest part of men in the sorting them. Much 549 III, VI | and yet those ignorant men, who pretend not any insight 550 III, VI | those learned quick-sighted men, who look so deep into them, 551 III, VI | that are commonly made by men. But supposing that the 552 III, VI | amongst the several nations of men: but those more or less 553 III, VI | in the ideas of different men. Since then it is evident 554 III, VI | and different in several men as experience tells us they 555 III, VI | species of substances in all men the same: no, not of that 556 III, VI | be different in several men, if it were of Nature’s 557 III, VI | species man; and yet how far men determine of the sorts of 558 III, VI | and therefore various as men vary. Wherein, then, would 559 III, VI | established by her amongst men. The real essence of that 560 III, VI | ourselves, that, if several men were to be asked concerning 561 III, VI | other which to the bodies of men had the heads of beasts, 562 III, VI | consent, and to be that which men would everywhere stick by, 563 III, VI | with unintelligible words. Men observing certain qualities 564 III, VI | substances. For, though men may make what complex ideas 565 III, VI | would speak of; or else men’s language will be like 566 III, VI | fancy of him that makes it. Men generally content themselves 567 III, VI | the turn. For however some men seem to prize their definition 568 III, VI | talking and thinking; yet men are far enough from having 569 III, VI | in the same subject. Most men, wanting either time, inclination, 570 III, VI | complex ideas are, in several men, very different: and therefore 571 III, VI | boundaries of species are as men, and not as Nature, makes 572 III, VI | to agree, is by different men made very differently; by 573 III, VI | And therefore different men, leaving out or putting 574 III, VI | same convenience that made men express several parcels 575 III, VI | Whereby it is plain that men follow not exactly the patterns 576 III, VI | inseparable as those. But men, in making their general 577 III, VI | genus and species: and this men do without any consideration 578 III, VI | birds common in England.~35. Men determine the sorts of substances, 579 III, VI | said, it is evident that men make sorts of things. For, 580 III, VI | one and the same name, but men that make two different 581 III, VI | them into species; it is men who, taking occasion from 582 III, VI | beings the work of fallible men, though nature makes things 583 III, VI | of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men; 584 III, VI | men sort them, are made by men; since the essences of the 585 III, VI | things is the workmanship of men.~38. Each abstract idea, 586 III, VI | be no distinct species to men ignorant of clock-work, 587 III, VI | it seldom happens that men have occasion to mention 588 III, VI | they stood for in other men’s minds, as to their patterns 589 III, VI | conformable to the ideas in other men’s minds, using the same 590 III, VI | significations, as used by different men, which would very much cumber 591 III, VI | it, it must follow, that men must suppose the same word 592 III, VI | different things in different men: since they cannot doubt 593 III, VI | cannot doubt but different men may have discovered several 594 III, VI | and this is that which men do when they speak of species 595 III, VI | thoughts, the same have all men ever since had. And the 596 III, VI | himself, the same are all men ever since under too. The 597 III, VI | difference, that, in places where men in society have already 598 III, VI | sparingly to be altered. Because men being furnished already 599 III, VI | terms to express them: but men think it a boldness, and 600 III, VII | and do much contribute to men’s well expressing themselves.~ 601 III, VII | cultivated. It is easy for men to write, one after another, 602 III, VIII | names of relations amongst men chiefly are substantives; 603 III, VIII | current amongst understanding men. Indeed, humanitas was a 604 III, IX | life, in the societies of men, one amongst another.~Secondly, 605 III, IX | arbitrary imposition of men, the doubtfulness and uncertainty 606 III, IX | the speaker. Without this, men fill one another’s heads 607 III, IX | decompounded, it is not easy for men to form and retain that 608 III, IX | Hence it comes to pass that men’s names of very compound 609 III, IX | seldom in two different men the same precise signification; 610 III, IX | standards in nature, whereby men may rectify and adjust their 611 III, IX | patterns to be shown whereby men may adjust them. What the 612 III, IX | in the minds of different men, who have scarce any standing 613 III, IX | signification; and even in men that have a mind to understand 614 III, IX | apparently very different in men using the same language.~ 615 III, IX | moral words are in most men’s mouths little more than 616 III, IX | intelligent and studious men, make them the signs of. 617 III, IX | observe the different notions men have of them? Which is nothing 618 III, IX | is no end. These ideas of men’s making are, by men still 619 III, IX | of men’s making are, by men still having the same power, 620 III, IX | brought upon the writings of men who have lived in remote 621 III, IX | numerous volumes of learned men, employing their thoughts 622 III, IX | specific name is to stand for, men, though they propose to 623 III, IX | comes to have, in several men, very different significations. 624 III, IX | discovered by different men, according to their various 625 III, IX | complex ideas of substances in men using the same names for 626 III, IX | enough to design the things men would be understood to speak 627 III, IX | languages whatsoever, which men will easily find when, once 628 III, IX | greatest part of disputes that men are engaged so hotly in, 629 III, IX | occasion to so many disputes. Men that do not perversely use 630 III, IX | of in discourses, wherein men have to do with universal 631 III, IX | figure and number, of which men have so clear and distinct 632 III, IX | consider, in the fallacies men put upon themselves, as 633 III, IX | others, and the mistakes in men’s disputes and notions, 634 III, IX | been made the business of men’s study, and obtained the 635 III, IX | of great uncertainty to men of the same language and 636 III, X | faults and neglects which men are guilty of in this way 637 III, X | them.~4. This occasioned by men learning names before they 638 III, X | ideas the names belong to. Men having been accustomed from 639 III, X | same meaning. This, though men make a shift with in the 640 III, X | notions annexed to them. Men take the words they find 641 III, X | to go about to draw those men out of their mistakes who 642 III, X | collections of simple ideas. If men should do so in their reckonings, 643 III, X | him, one of the two names men are commonly disgusted with. 644 III, X | unavoidably to be so, where men’s parts and learning are 645 III, X | one part of the learned men of the world. And no wonder, 646 III, X | attained, than by amusing the men of business, and ignorant, 647 III, X | keeping even inquisitive men from true knowledge, hath 648 III, X | other well-meaning and wise men, whose education and parts 649 III, X | language. But though unlearned men well enough understood the 650 III, X | stand for. These learned men did equally instruct men’ 651 III, X | men did equally instruct men’s understandings, and profit 652 III, X | substances. To this abuse those men are most subject who most 653 III, X | something real? These words men have learned from their 654 III, X | serves so well to palliate men’s ignorance, and cover their 655 III, X | would make impressions on men’s minds, so as to establish 656 III, X | in nature or no. And if men would tell what ideas they 657 III, X | familiar use, they charm men into notions far remote 658 III, X | of the least causes that men are so hardly drawn to quit 659 III, X | out, and vice versa: yet men do not usually think that 660 III, X | think very much disposes men to substitute their names 661 III, X | same specific name, makes men forward to take those names 662 III, X | great deal of uncertainty in men’s discourses; especially 663 III, X | little reflects on the use men make of their words, that 664 III, X | signification which other men cannot but understand. Sixthly, 665 III, X | words; and that is, that men having by a long and familiar 666 III, X | improvement or information; whilst men take words to be the constant 667 III, X | their own ideas. And yet men think it strange, if in 668 III, X | complex ideas which any two men use for the same just precise 669 III, X | and confused conceptions men indeed ordinarily have, 670 III, X | determinate ideas. And though men will not be so importunately 671 III, X | ill effects, as amongst men of letters. The multiplication 672 III, X | that the contending learned men of different parties do, 673 III, X | another’s view: 1. When men have names in their mouths 674 III, X | with quickness. Secondly, Men fail of conveying their 675 III, X | knowledge of things conveyed by men’s words, when their ideas 676 III, X | reality or existence.~26. How men’s words fail in all these: 677 III, X | thereof chimeras.~32. How men’s words fail when they stand 678 III, X | It is evident how much men love to deceive and be deceived, 679 III, X | arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ~ 680 III, XI | ridiculous. To require that men should use their words constantly 681 III, XI | would be to think that all men should have the same notions, 682 III, XI | imagine he can prevail with men to be very knowing or very 683 III, XI | good understanding; or that men’s talking much or little 684 III, XI | though the schools, and men of argument would perhaps 685 III, XI | or equivocation, to which men’s words are naturally liable, 686 III, XI | or knowledge?~5. Has made men more conceited and obstinate. 687 III, XI | in an ill use of words, men suffer in their own private 688 III, XI | the great conduit, whereby men convey their discoveries, 689 III, XI | terms, is only fit to make men more conceited in their 690 III, XI | and pronounced or writ by men who have no ideas in their 691 III, XI | necessary they should, if men would speak intelligibly 692 III, XI | troublesome; and therefore most men will think they may be excused 693 III, XI | Thirdly, it is not enough that men have ideas, determined ideas, 694 III, XI | bound to give notice of it. Men’s intentions in speaking 695 III, XI | incommodious interruptions, where men do not follow common use. 696 III, XI | thoughts entrance into other men’s minds with the greatest 697 III, XI | signification to words, as to make men know always certainly what 698 III, XI | precisely stand for: and because men in the improvement of their 699 III, XI | either make new words, (which men seldom venture to do, for 700 III, XI | three ways. As the ideas men’s words stand for are of 701 III, XI | reference to any archetypes, men may, if they please, exactly 702 III, XI | what consequence it is for men, in their names of mixed 703 III, XI | with. It is far easier for men to frame in their minds 704 III, XI | him; who is as he is, let men make what idea they please 705 III, XI | of things as well as with men’s ideas. And therefore, 706 III, XI | the complex idea in other men’s minds, which in their 707 III, XI | to continue when they are men: and so begin at the wrong 708 III, XI | means it comes to pass, that men speaking the language of 709 III, XI | therefore to be wished, That men versed in physical inquiries, 710 III, XI | substances as explain the sense men use them in. And it would 711 III, XI | is not usually done; but men talk to one another, and 712 III, XI | communication by language brings men to an agreement in the signification 713 III, XI | the ideas of particular men, proves often but a very 714 III, XI | and settle truer ideas in men’s minds of several things, 715 III, XI | same sense. Fifthly, If men will not be at the pains 716 III, XI | variety of thoughts, that men, wanting terms to suit their 717 IV, I | distinction. And though men of art have reduced this 718 IV, I | on one thing at once, if men had no knowledge of any 719 IV, I | perception, and does in all men more or less decay in length 720 IV, II | intuitive knowledge, and men embrace often falsehood 721 IV, II | idea, is that whereof some men think there may be a question 722 IV, II | a question made; because men may have such ideas in their 723 IV, III | it has hitherto been, if men would sincerely, and with 724 IV, III | retribution he has designed to men, according to their doings 725 IV, III | An unfair way which some men take with themselves: who, 726 IV, III | complex ideas as these, in men’s minds, do these two names 727 IV, III | find the advantages some men’s generous pains have this 728 IV, III | Confident I am, that, if men would in the same method, 729 IV, III | riches, or power makes men espouse the well-endowed 730 IV, III | lie? Whilst the parties of men cram their tenets down all 731 IV, III | cram their tenets down all men’s throats whom they can 732 IV, III | fair play in the world, nor men the liberty to search after 733 IV, III | Lord set up by himself in men’s minds, which it is impossible 734 IV, III | understandings of thinking men find themselves puzzled 735 IV, III | Want of simple ideas that men are capable of having, but 736 IV, III | thinking beings in other men as well as himself, every 737 IV, III | words. It is impossible that men should ever truly seek or 738 IV, III | which has so much hindered men’s progress in other parts 739 IV, III | misfortune of a great part of men of letters, the increase 740 IV, III | stock of knowledge. Had men, in the discoveries of the 741 IV, IV | extravagant as the imaginations of men’s brains? Where is the head 742 IV, IV | all this fine knowledge of men’s own imaginations, to a 743 IV, IV | things? It matters not what men’s fancies are, it is the 744 IV, IV | abstracts from the lives of men, and the existence of those 745 IV, IV | which are in the minds of men.~9. Nor will it be less 746 IV, IV | unacquainted with the zeal of some men, which enables them to spin 747 IV, IV | answer, The force of these men’s question (viz. Will you 748 IV, IV | this is a conclusion that men nowhere allow of. For if 749 IV, IV | issue out of the rank of men; the want of reason and 750 IV, V | separately is, that most men, if not all, in their thinking 751 IV, V | the mind, even in those men who have formerly been at 752 IV, V | for agree or disagree in men’s minds, the knowledge of 753 IV, V | worth the pains and time men employ in the search of 754 IV, V | words to the chimeras of men’s brains. Who knows not 755 IV, V | not what odd notions many men’s heads are filled with, 756 IV, V | and what strange ideas all men’s brains are capable of? 757 IV, V | harpies and centaurs, as men and horses. For those, and 758 IV, V | are animals, as that all men are animals; and the certainty 759 IV, VI | ideas themselves, even when men think and reason within 760 IV, VI | certainty to affirm, that all men are rational, or that all 761 IV, VI | boundary of each species, and men extend the application of 762 IV, VI | should be, for the ideas men have in their minds, though 763 IV, VI | inquisitive and observing men may, by strength of judgment, 764 IV, VI | certainty affirm: That all men sleep by intervals; That 765 IV, VI | wood or stones; That all men will be poisoned by hemlock: 766 IV, VII | If they seem so to grown men, it is only because by constant 767 IV, VII | I think, I may ask these men, who will needs have all 768 IV, VII | least innumerable, which men arrive to the knowledge 769 IV, VII | of what hath been by some men ascribed to these maxims 770 IV, VII | propagated from scholastic men, of sciences and the maxims 771 IV, VII | They are not of use to help men forward in the advancement 772 IV, VII | disputation the touchstone of men’s abilities, and the criterion 773 IV, VII | which being such as all men allowed and agreed in, were 774 IV, VII | principles, beyond which men in dispute could not retreat, 775 IV, VII | received by all reasonable men who have once thought of 776 IV, VII | brought to a first principle. Men would give off a wrong argument 777 IV, VII | having allowed and encouraged men to oppose and resist evident 778 IV, VII | learning is like to turn young men’s minds from the sincere 779 IV, VII | and error. It is to show men that these maxims, however 780 IV, VII | on them; and I may warn men not to make an ill use of 781 IV, VII | and most commonly make men receive and retain falsehood 782 IV, VII | simple ideas. But because men mistake generally,—thinking 783 IV, VII | a vacuum. So that whilst men take words for things, as 784 IV, VII | infants and changelings are no men, by this maxim, it is impossible 785 IV, VII | discoursed with very rational men, who have actually denied 786 IV, VII | actually denied that they are men.~18. A third instance. Thirdly, 787 IV, VIII | take notice of them.~But if men will call propositions identical, 788 IV, VIII | them from his own or other men’s fancies, and not from 789 IV, VIII | and ill custom do in many men much contribute.~12. Marks 790 IV, X | in the different make of men’s tempers and application 791 IV, X | foundation: and take some men’s having that idea of God 792 IV, X | for it is evident some men have none, and some worse 793 IV, X | an eternal knowing Being, men, devoted to matter, would 794 IV, X | still be creation; and these men must give up their great 795 IV, X | imagine, is that notion which men are aptest to have of God; 796 IV, X | of themselves and other men, which they take to be material 797 IV, XI | certain of the existence of men that I never saw. And, therefore, 798 IV, XI | probable that millions of men do now exist, yet, whilst 799 IV, XI | confidence that there are men (and men also of my acquaintance, 800 IV, XI | that there are men (and men also of my acquaintance, 801 IV, XI | how certain soever, that “men ought to fear and obey God” 802 IV, XI | not to me the existence of men in the world; but will be 803 IV, XI | them, in the minds of all men; or that they were any of 804 IV, XII | received opinion amongst men of letters, that maxims 805 IV, XII | in mathematics, wherein men, being observed to attain 806 IV, XII | of real knowledge which men arrived to in these sciences, 807 IV, XII | morality, which influence men’s lives, and give a bias 808 IV, XII | private talent of particular men for the common use of human 809 IV, XII | the inquiries of rational men after real improvements; 810 IV, XII | ages together, advanced men’s progress, towards the 811 IV, XII | truths in mathematics, which men, well enough acquainted 812 IV, XIII | altogether necessary, all men’s knowledge would not only 813 IV, XIII | were wholly voluntary, some men so little regard or value 814 IV, XIII | little, or none at all. Men that have senses cannot 815 IV, XIII | And therefore, as far as men’s senses are conversant 816 IV, XIII | things without: and so far as men’s thoughts converse with 817 IV, XIV | silent in the case, that, as men employ those talents God 818 IV, XIV | certain proofs are to be had. Men often stay not warily to 819 IV, XV | weather, be so hard that men walked upon it, and that 820 IV, XV | use of for one, by which men most commonly regulate their 821 IV, XV | falsehood and error among men than truth and knowledge. 822 IV, XV | be a ground of assent, men have reason to be Heathens 823 IV, XVI | confess, in the opinions men have, and firmly stick to 824 IV, XVI | that the greatest part of men are capable of doing, in 825 IV, XVI | on in the case, and that men be persuaded of several 826 IV, XVI | this, the greatest part of men must be either very sceptic; 827 IV, XVI | I cannot but own, that men’s sticking to their past 828 IV, XVI | say the greatest part) of men that think they have formed 829 IV, XVI | all. And yet these, of all men, hold their opinions with 830 IV, XVI | to the greatest part of men, if not all, to have several 831 IV, XVI | lightness, or folly for men to quit and renounce their 832 IV, XVI | would, methinks, become all men to maintain peace, and the 833 IV, XVI | from God himself, or from men sent by him? How can we 834 IV, XVI | never fails to be, where men find themselves ill treated? 835 IV, XVI | bottom all his own, or other men’s opinions? The necessity 836 IV, XVI | imposing that as truth on other men’s belief, which they themselves 837 IV, XVI | reason to think, that, if men were better instructed themselves, 838 IV, XVI | experience of all other men with ours, produces assurance 839 IV, XVI | the general consent of all men, in all ages, as far as 840 IV, XVI | For what our own and other men’s constant observation has 841 IV, XVI | giving us such an account of men in all ages, and my own 842 IV, XVI | confirming it, that most men prefer their private advantage 843 IV, XVI | various degrees wherein men give their assent. This 844 IV, XVI | because I find amongst some men the quite contrary commonly 845 IV, XVI | odd reasons, or capricios, men’s minds are acted by, (impossible 846 IV, XVI | other sort, concerning which men entertain opinions with 847 IV, XVI | exceeding great between some men and some animals: but if 848 IV, XVI | understanding and abilities of some men and some brutes, we shall 849 IV, XVI | influence on the minds of men, to make them give or refuse 850 IV, XVII | such connexion or no; there men’s opinions are not the product 851 IV, XVII | perhaps better, without it.~Men can reason well who cannot 852 IV, XVII | notice, that there are many men that reason exceeding clear 853 IV, XVII | Asia and America, will find men reason there perhaps as 854 IV, XVII | has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged 855 IV, XVII | on as one of the greatest men amongst the ancients; whose 856 IV, XVII | proposition laid down, “Men shall be punished in another 857 IV, XVII | inferred this other, “Then men can determine themselves.” 858 IV, XVII | proposition inferred? V.g. “Men shall be punished”; “God 859 IV, XVII | placed between, the ideas of men and self-determination appear 860 IV, XVII | i.e. this proposition “men can determine themselves” 861 IV, XVII | there is between the idea of men’s punishment in the other 862 IV, XVII | sees the connexion between men and self-determination.~ 863 IV, XVII | For those that are not men of art, not knowing the 864 IV, XVII | is in the Schools, where men are allowed without shame 865 IV, XVII | order: and hence it is that men, in their own inquiries 866 IV, XVII | between the punishment of men and the guilt of the punished, ( 867 IV, XVII | the reason why sometimes men who sincerely aim at truth 868 IV, XVII | depends. Now, to show such men the weakness of such an 869 IV, XVII | plain evidence to me, that men of parts and penetration, 870 IV, XVII | understanding. And hence it is that men, even when they are baffled 871 IV, XVII | conviction with it, and made men see where the truth lay; 872 IV, XVII | experience how ready some men are, when all the use which 873 IV, XVII | attainment of knowledge. And if men skilled in and used to syllogisms, 874 IV, XVII | to them, and think that men have no use, or not so full 875 IV, XVII | may be said) in convincing men of their errors and mistakes: ( 876 IV, XVII | maturity of judgment between men therewith inured, and that 877 IV, XVII | therewith inured, and that which men now are, as between men 878 IV, XVII | men now are, as between men that are now, and innocents.” 879 IV, XVII | age is adorned with some men of that strength of judgment 880 IV, XVII | ideas: and in this some men’s faculties far outgo others. 881 IV, XVII | sagacity, was discovered, men with amazement looked on 882 IV, XVII | warily attended to, puzzle men’s reason, and bring them 883 IV, XVII | perplexities or errors they fill men’s minds with are everywhere 884 IV, XVII | and the spirits of just men made perfect shall have, 885 IV, XVII | sorts of arguments, that men, in their reasonings with 886 IV, XVII | to allege the opinions of men, whose parts, learning, 887 IV, XVII | kind of authority. When men are established in any kind 888 IV, XVII | question the authority of men who are in possession of 889 IV, XVII | Secondly, Another way that men ordinarily use to drive 890 IV, XVII | reason and faith are by some men opposed, we will so consider 891 IV, XVIII | own nor testimony of other men to bottom our reason upon. ~ 892 IV, XVIII | of discovering truths to men, we call revelation.~3. 893 IV, XVIII | produce in the minds of other men those ideas imprinted by 894 IV, XVIII | proposition in Euclid; as well as men, by the natural use of their 895 IV, XVIII | and divide mankind. For men having been principled with 896 IV, XVIII | brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, 897 IV, XVIII | prove a very ill rule for men to choose their opinions 898 IV, XIX | assent, which with some men has the same authority, 899 IV, XIX | being a much easier way for men to establish their opinions 900 IV, XIX | we see that, in all ages, men in whom melancholy has mixed 901 IV, XIX | persuasions and actions of men than either of those two, 902 IV, XIX | those two, or both together: men being most forwardly obedient 903 IV, XIX | actions enthusiasm has run men into were enough to warn 904 IV, XIX | knowledge, so flatters many men’s laziness, ignorance, and 905 IV, XIX | way of talking of these men: they are sure, because 906 IV, XIX | they build so much. These men have, they say, clear light, 907 IV, XIX | if I mistake not, these men receive it for true, because 908 IV, XIX | evidence it pretends to. For men thus possessed, boast of 909 IV, XIX | of what kind soever, that men uninspired are enlightened 910 IV, XIX | inflexible as straight: and men may be as positive and peremptory 911 IV, XIX | contradictory lights, leading men contrary ways; and contradictory 912 IV, XIX | who were mistaken. Good men are men still liable to 913 IV, XIX | were mistaken. Good men are men still liable to mistakes, 914 IV, XIX | so. Thus we see the holy men of old, who had revelations 915 IV, XIX | doth sometimes enlighten men’s minds in the apprehending 916 IV, XIX | is common to us with all men. Where reason or Scripture 917 IV, XX | Causes of error, or how men come to give assent contrary 918 IV, XX | it will be demanded how men come to give their assents 919 IV, XX | might be procured. And thus men want proofs, who have not 920 IV, XX | provisions for living. These men’s opportunities of knowledge 921 IV, XX | conversing with variety of men, should be in a condition 922 IV, XX | that, in the societies of men, are judged of the greatest 923 IV, XX | opinions: the greatest part of men, having much to do to get 924 IV, XX | England? How ready some men may be to say some of these 925 IV, XX | but this I am sure, that men must allow one or other 926 IV, XX | grant that God has furnished men with faculties sufficient 927 IV, XX | matters of religion. Were men as intent upon this as they 928 IV, XX | without knowledge; where men are forced, at a venture, 929 IV, XX | probable. There are some men of one, some but of two 930 IV, XX | such a difference between men, in respect of their understandings, 931 IV, XX | Which great difference in men’s intellectuals, whether 932 IV, XX | the natural differences of men’s souls themselves; or some, 933 IV, XX | difference of degrees in men’s understandings, apprehensions, 934 IV, XX | greater distance between some men and others in this respect 935 IV, XX | respect than between some men and some beasts. But how 936 IV, XX | in business, engages some men’s thoughts elsewhere: laziness 937 IV, XX | and in fashion. Thus, most men, even of those that might 938 IV, XX | eyes that way. We know some men will not read a letter which 939 IV, XX | bring ill news; and many men forbear to cast up their 940 IV, XX | no very good posture. How men, whose plentiful fortunes 941 IV, XX | unreasonable this is for men that ever think of a future 942 IV, XX | carried away from them by men of lower condition, who 943 IV, XX | testimony, not only of other men, but the evidence of our 944 IV, XX | being pulled out again. For men, when they are grown up, 945 IV, XX | obstinacy that is to be found in men firmly believing quite contrary 946 IV, XX | traditional principles. So that men will disbelieve their own 947 IV, XX | believe his reason (for so men improperly call arguments 948 IV, XX | hypotheses. Next to these are men whose understandings are 949 IV, XX | than this. The instances of men contending for different 950 IV, XX | Probabilities which cross men’s appetites and prevailing 951 IV, XX | experimented: and though men cannot always openly gainsay 952 IV, XX | consistent, to which most men may not, with satisfaction 953 IV, XX | neighbourhood or country. How many men have no other ground for 954 IV, XX | As if honest or bookish men could not err; or truth 955 IV, XX | multitude: yet this with most men serves the turn. The tenet 956 IV, XX | reception I give it: other men have been and are of the 957 IV, XX | up by such measures. All men are liable to error, and 958 IV, XX | liable to error, and most men are in many points, by passion 959 IV, XX | motives that influenced the men of name and learning in 960 IV, XX | follow.~18. Not so many men in errors as is commonly 961 IV, XX | say, There are not so many men in errors and wrong opinions 962 IV, XX | protection in that society. Thus men become professors of, and 963 IV, XXI | also necessary: those which men have found most convenient,