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1 Read | into the working of men’s minds, and a stricter examination 2 Int | light we can let in upon our minds, all the acquaintance we 3 Int | which we cannot frame in our minds any clear or distinct perceptions, 4 Int | of the narrowness of our minds, if we will but employ them 5 Int | surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate 6 Int | are such ideas in men’s minds: every one is conscious 7 I, I | idiots have souls, have minds, with those impressions 8 I, I | had engraven upon their minds.~23. The argument of assenting 9 I, I | knowledge comes into our minds; and the grounds of several 10 I, I | truths that first possess the minds of children, nor are antecedent 11 I, I | reasonably imagine that in their minds these innate notions should 12 I, I | impressions of them on the minds of naturals. They are the 13 I, II | the tacit assent of their minds agrees to what their practice 14 I, II | tendencies imprinted on the minds of men; and that from the 15 I, II | innate, and imprinted in our minds immediately by the hand 16 I, II | them inwardly in their own minds, as the inviolable rules 17 I, II | and stamped upon their minds. View but an army at the 18 I, II | naturally imprinted on their minds. It is possible men may 19 I, II | they could not in their own minds but be infallibly certain 20 I, II | have imprinted on their minds, and which therefore they 21 I, II | anything be imprinted on the minds of all men as a law, all 22 I, II | something imprinted on our minds in their very original, 23 I, II | God has imprinted on the minds of men the foundations of 24 I, II | propositions stamped on their minds, they would easily be able 25 I, II | their being imprinted on the minds of men by the hand of God, 26 I, II | common notions written on our minds by the finger of God; if 27 I, II | principle written on the minds of all men, (however true 28 I, II | vices were engraven in men’s minds, and were innate principles 29 I, II | engrave principles in men’s minds, in words of uncertain signification, 30 I, II | last quite worn out of the minds of men. Which assertion 31 I, II | education, blotted out of the minds of many men: which is to 32 I, II | and reflect on their own minds, they cannot find anything 33 I, II | God and nature upon their minds, and not taught them by 34 I, II | nor be at quiet in their minds without some foundation 35 I, II | inured them to bow their minds and submit their understandings 36 I, II | have been set up in their minds; grow fond of the notions 37 I, III | afterwards, ideas come into their minds; and that they get no more, 38 I, III | founded. Now, whether the minds of men have naturally imprinted 39 I, III | impressions of a Deity upon their minds, and that the complaints 40 I, III | such a notion out of men’s minds, any argument against the 41 I, III | necessarily have on the minds of all that have but once 42 I, III | God, to imprint upon the minds of men characters and notions 43 I, III | God has imprinted on the minds of men an idea of himself, 44 I, III | be found imprinted on the minds of men, we have reason to 45 I, III | the progress whereby their minds attain the knowledge they 46 I, III | they come to frame in their minds an idea men have of a Deity, 47 I, III | himself, engraven in their minds by his own finger, when 48 I, III | such ideas of God in their minds as he himself, out of care 49 I, III | that God imprinted on the minds of all men speaking the 50 I, III | God, that he has given us minds unfurnished with these ideas 51 I, III | infinite an object. But our minds being at first void of that 52 I, III | ideas are brought into our minds, this is not, we have no 53 I, III | supposed to print upon the minds of men some universal principles; 54 I, III | bodies and powers of our minds happen to be employed; God 55 I, III | by lazily enslaving their minds to the dictates and dominion 56 I, III | found them to result in the minds of men from the being of 57 II, I | doubt that men have in their minds several ideas,—such as are 58 II, I | characters, stamped upon their minds in their very first being. 59 II, I | internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected 60 II, I | 4. The operations of our minds, the other source of them. 61 II, I | different actings of our own minds;—which we being conscious 62 II, I | the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of 63 II, I | that we have nothing in our minds which did not come in one 64 II, I | not, are imprinted on the minds of children. Light and colours 65 II, I | the operations of their minds within, according as they 66 II, I | operations of their own minds; and some have not any very 67 II, I | particular ideas upon our minds whether we will or not; 68 II, I | and the operations of our minds will not let us be without, 69 II, III | their approaches to our minds, and make themselves perceivable 70 II, III | some which come into our minds by one sense only.~Secondly, 71 II, V | receive and convey into our minds the ideas of the extension, 72 II, VII | from the thoughts of our minds, or anything operating on 73 II, VII | also given a power to our minds, in several instances, to 74 II, VII | our bodies, nor employ our minds, but let our thoughts (if 75 II, VII | suffer the ideas of our minds, like unregarded shadows, 76 II, VII | within. When ideas are in our minds, we consider them as being 77 II, VII | us by what passes in our minds; and that is the idea of 78 II, VIII | ideas or perceptions in our minds; and as they are modifications 79 II, VIII | objects be not united to our minds when they produce ideas 80 II, VIII | there to produce in our minds the particular ideas we 81 II, VIII | flower to be produced in our minds. It being no more impossible 82 II, IX | may be introduced into the minds of children in the womb, 83 II, IX | senses, conveying to our minds the ideas of light and colours, 84 II, IX | were in an instant, do our minds, with one glance, see all 85 II, IX | of all knowledge in our minds. And I am apt too to imagine, 86 II, X | power to revive again in our minds those ideas which, after 87 II, X | which were produced in the minds of children, in the beginning 88 II, X | of colours left in their minds, than in those of people 89 II, X | are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that 90 II, X | often die before us: and our minds represent to us those tombs 91 II, X | The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours; 92 II, X | thought which employs our minds, bring along with them;— 93 II, X | too they start up in our minds of their own accord, and 94 II, X | the narrowness that human minds are confined to here,—of 95 II, XI | may take notice of in our minds is that of discerning and 96 II, XI | ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily 97 II, XI | are usually, in most men’s minds, much more clear, precise, 98 II, XII | trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe 99 II, XII | any operations of our own minds, are yet only such as the 100 II, XIII | measuring, settle in their minds the ideas of certain stated 101 II, XIII | thoughts, they can, in their minds, repeat them as often as 102 II, XIII | which we receive into our minds the ideas of extension or 103 II, XIII | since some have had their minds, by their eyes and touch, ( 104 II, XIII | having settled ideas in our minds, we can revive, repeat, 105 II, XIII | examine the ideas of their own minds, cannot much differ in thinking; 106 II, XIV | one after another in our minds, is that which furnishes 107 II, XIV | of any two ideas in our minds, is that we call duration. 108 II, XIV | successively several ideas in our minds, we know that we do exist; 109 II, XIV | succession of any ideas in our minds, the duration of ourselves, 110 II, XIV | after another in our own minds, seems plain to me, in that 111 II, XIV | succession of ideas in our minds. For if a man, during his 112 II, XIV | another immediately in our minds, we have no perception of 113 II, XIV | succeed one another in our minds, is not perceived to move; 114 II, XIV | succeed one another in our minds at certain distances; not 115 II, XIV | ideas one to another in our minds, beyond which they can neither 116 II, XIV | of only one idea in our minds, without the succession 117 II, XIV | having room to come into our minds between those offered to 118 II, XIV | as the ideas of our own minds do naturally follow one 119 II, XIV | pace with the ideas in our minds, or the quickness in which 120 II, XIV | so, that the ideas of our minds, whilst we have any there, 121 II, XIV | knowing how the ideas of our minds are framed, of what materials 122 II, XIV | of the ideas of our own minds, appearing there one after 123 II, XIV | constant train of ideas in our minds whilst we are waking, that 124 II, XIV | than as it causes in our minds a constant succession of 125 II, XIV | succeeding one another in our minds, without the idea of any 126 II, XIV | which had passed in men’s minds in the intervals; by which 127 II, XIV | lengths of duration in our minds, which we apply to all parts 128 II, XIV | appearances, which we can in our minds apply to duration, with 129 II, XIV | observing what passes in our minds, how our ideas there in 130 II, XIV | length of duration, in our minds, as often as we will, we 131 II, XV | time of one idea in our minds, in the train of their ordinary 132 II, XV | succession of ideas in our minds, from whence we take the 133 II, XVI | understandings; every thought of our minds, brings this idea along 134 II, XVI | repeating this idea in our minds, and adding the repetitions 135 II, XVI | of numbers being in our minds but so many combinations 136 II, XVII | duration we have in our minds, with all the endless addition 137 II, XVII | as often, repeated in our minds as the other: and yet nobody 138 II, XVII | those ideas alone lead our minds towards the thought of infinity.~ 139 II, XVII | positive ideas we have in our minds of any space, duration, 140 II, XVII | when we would frame in our minds the idea of an infinite 141 II, XVII | of which we have in our minds the distinct ideas, if we 142 II, XVII | we are in, repeat in our minds the ideas of years, or ages, 143 II, XVII | we have the ideas in our minds, and whereby we judge of 144 II, XVII | contradictions, and their minds be overlaid by an object 145 II, XVII | to introduce into their minds ideas of infinity. But this 146 II, XVIII | simple ideas come to our minds only by sensation and reflection; 147 II, XVIII | generally framed in the minds of men not conversant about 148 II, XVIII | which being seldom in the minds of any but those few whose 149 II, XVIII | conceive those ideas in their minds;—as by cohobation all the 150 II, XIX | succeeding one another in our minds) are taken notice of, and, 151 II, XX | of good and evil upon our minds, as they are differently 152 II, XX | works differently in men’s minds, sometimes producing uneasiness 153 II, XX | and pain resulting in our minds from various considerations 154 II, XXI | intimation, to direct our minds to the consideration of 155 II, XXI | on the operations of our minds. For all power relating 156 II, XXI | end several actions of our minds, and motions of our bodies, 157 II, XXI | perception of ideas in our minds. 2. The perception of the 158 II, XXI | is in the thoughts of our minds: where any one is such, 159 II, XXI | than to establish in our minds determined ideas of the 160 II, XXI | carried along with us in our minds, as they ought, through 161 II, XXI | representations set before their minds of the unspeakable joys 162 II, XXI | certain objects, either on our minds or our bodies, and in different 163 II, XXI | has raised desires in our minds, and thereby made us uneasy 164 II, XXI | the last result of our own minds, judging of the good or 165 II, XXI | masters enough of our own minds to consider thoroughly and 166 II, XXI | to suit the relish of our minds to the true intrinsic good 167 II, XXI | formed appetites in our minds suitable to it, and made 168 II, XXI | narrow constitution of our minds. We cannot well enjoy two 169 II, XXI | reflection we receive from our minds.~I crave leave to make use 170 II, XXI | beyond the bare ideas in our minds, and would inquire into 171 II, XXII | must needs have been in the minds of men, before they existed 172 II, XXII | distinct complex ideas in their minds. Thus ostrhakismos amongst 173 II, XXII | ideas which were not in the minds of the men of other nations. 174 II, XXII | existence anywhere but in the minds of men, and there too have 175 II, XXII | together; and as to the minds of men, where the ideas 176 II, XXII | simple ideas in our own minds: so he that first invented 177 II, XXII | and reflection stored our minds with simple ideas, and by 178 II, XXII | supposed settled ideas in their minds, of modes of actions, distinguished 179 II, XXII | names, and familiar in the minds and mouths of men, yet other 180 II, XXIII | their several species in our minds; and such only do we, by 181 II, XXIII | which we recollect in our minds when we think of particular 182 II, XXIII | frame ideas of them in our minds, and distinguish them one 183 II, XXIII | those operations of our own minds, which we experiment daily 184 II, XXIII | have so subjected their minds to their senses that they 185 II, XXIII | anything belonging to our minds, and a solid extended substance 186 II, XXIII | of body, the other of our minds, every day’s experience 187 II, XXIII | inconceivable as how our minds move or stop our bodies 188 II, XXIII | the best idea of him our minds are capable of: all which 189 II, XXIII | the operations of our own minds, by reflection; or by our 190 II, XXIII | the operation of our own minds, we can attribute to spirits 191 II, XXV | thing, which idea is in our minds, as one picture, though 192 II, XXV | perfect and distinct in our minds than those of substances. 193 II, XXVI | exist, hath thereby in our minds the relation of a cause, 194 II, XXVI | we have the idea in our minds. Thus, having settled in 195 II, XXVI | duration which we have in our minds, as ordinarily belonging 196 II, XXVI | which are settled in our minds as belonging to these several 197 II, XXVI | time; and so have in our minds, as it were, a standard 198 II, XXVI | observation, settled in our minds the ideas of the bigness 199 II, XXVI | idea which we have in our minds to belong ordinarily to 200 II, XXVII | doubt, that the idea in our minds, of which the sound man 201 II, XXVII | spirit, man, or person in our minds; and having resolved with 202 II, XXVII | actions, as we find our minds always are of a great part 203 II, XXVIII| these notions thus in our minds, we have there so many determined 204 II, XXVIII| the operations of our own minds, we have the ideas of willing, 205 II, XXVIII| standard soever we frame in our minds the ideas of virtues or 206 II, XXVIII| clear and distinct in the minds of those who will duly consider 207 II, XXVIII| is an idea only in men’s minds, men frequently apply them 208 II, XXX | which produce them in our minds; that being all that is 209 II, XXX | but what they have in the minds of men, there is nothing 210 II, XXXI | produce those ideas in our minds, or else they could not 211 II, XXXI | ideas that are in men’s minds, they must constantly refer 212 II, XXXI | ideas they have in their minds, being referred to real 213 II, XXXI | thus copy into the their minds: nor do those copies exactly 214 II, XXXI | the complex idea in men’s minds of that sort of body we 215 II, XXXII | appearances, or perceptions in our minds, cannot properly and simply 216 II, XXXII | say that the ideas in our minds, being only so many perceptions 217 II, XXXII | it when it appears in our minds, than the name centaur has 218 II, XXXII | conformable to that in other men’s minds, called by the same common 219 II, XXXII | ideas they have in their minds are such as agree to the 220 II, XXXII | false; and the idea in our minds, which we express by the 221 II, XXXII | produce in several men’s minds different ideas at the same 222 II, XXXII | the ideas in other men’s minds. I am nevertheless very 223 II, XXXII | object in different men’s minds, are most commonly very 224 II, XXXII | appearances or perceptions in our minds consisting, as has been 225 II, XXXII | then, which we have in our minds, whether conformable or 226 II, XXXII | things, or to any idea in the minds of other men, cannot properly 227 II, XXXII | same that is in other men’s minds, signified by the same name; 228 II, XXXIII| hand in it. Men of fair minds, and not given up to the 229 II, XXXIII| very sober and rational minds, and wherein it consists.~ 230 II, XXXIII| so united in some men’s minds, that it is very hard to 231 II, XXXIII| seem to be produced in our minds; or, if they are not, this 232 II, XXXIII| them made by custom, in the minds of most men, I think nobody 233 II, XXXIII| connexion of ideas in the minds of young people. This is 234 II, XXXIII| This wrong connexion in our minds of ideas in themselves loose 235 II, XXXIII| effects of it. Ideas in our minds, when they are there, will 236 II, XXXIII| party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear 237 II, XXXIII| accustomed so to join in their minds as to substitute one for 238 II, XXXIII| connexion of them in their minds hath to them made in effect 239 III, I | and the thoughts of men’s minds be conveyed from one to 240 III, I | derived, which filled their minds who were the first beginners 241 III, I | operations of their own minds, they were sufficiently 242 III, I | inward operations of their minds about them; we having, as 243 III, II | supposed to be in other men’s minds. But though words, as they 244 III, II | marks of the ideas in the minds also of other men, with 245 III, II | discourse with have in their minds be the same: but think it 246 III, II | ideas we have in our own minds.~6. Words by use readily 247 III, II | the same ideas in their minds that he has, when they use 248 III, III | are well framed in their minds; and, like pictures of them 249 III, III | ordinary proceedings of their minds in knowledge. And he that 250 III, III | abstract ideas we have in our minds. And therefore the supposed 251 III, III | and settling them in their minds with names annexed to them, 252 III, IV | objects themselves make on our minds, by the proper inlets appointed 253 III, IV | to those in other men’s minds, when they use those names: 254 III, IV | this means, we have our minds stored with them, and know 255 III, V | adultery might be framed in the minds of men, and have names given 256 III, V | existence but in their own minds. And I think nobody can 257 III, V | are the workmanship of our minds. Another thing we may observe 258 III, VI | the way by having their minds set upon fruitless inquiries 259 III, VI | from the actions of our own minds in thinking, and being delighted, 260 III, VI | from the operations of our minds, we attribute all of them 261 III, VI | very different in different minds. But however these species 262 III, VI | they being expressed in our minds by distinct ideas, and to 263 III, VI | sometimes to archetypes in the minds of other intelligent beings, 264 III, VI | they pleased in their own minds; to abstract them, and make 265 III, VI | conform the ideas in their minds, signified by these names, 266 III, VI | stood for in other men’s minds, as to their patterns and 267 III, VI | the ideas in other men’s minds, using the same names; though 268 III, VII | of several actions of our minds in discoursing, which it 269 III, IX | be often various in the minds of different men, who have 270 III, IX | words, nor have in their minds the same complex ideas which 271 III, IX | and would settle in their minds universal truths, and consider 272 III, X | determined ideas laid up in their minds, which are to be expressed 273 III, X | necessary to settle in their minds determined ideas, they use 274 III, X | make impressions on men’s minds, so as to establish them 275 III, X | remaining firm in their minds, it is no wonder that the 276 III, X | substances the ideas in our minds which those words signified. 277 III, X | because they secretly in their minds refer that name, and suppose 278 III, X | ideas they have in their minds when they use them. So that, 279 III, X | determinate ideas in their minds, whereof they are the signs: 280 III, XI | when they would apply their minds to moral matters? And who 281 III, XI | them had no ideas in their minds to which they applied them, 282 III, XI | who have no ideas in their minds to which they have annexed 283 III, XI | modes so precisely in their minds. But yet I must say, till 284 III, XI | and confusion in their own minds, and a great deal of wrangling 285 III, XI | entrance into other men’s minds with the greatest ease and 286 III, XI | for men to frame in their minds an idea, which shall be 287 III, XI | put together in their own minds; for the other, they must 288 III, XI | complex idea in other men’s minds, which in their ordinary 289 III, XI | settle truer ideas in men’s minds of several things, whereof 290 IV, II | external object is in our minds: this is intuitive knowledge. 291 IV, II | barely that idea in our minds; whether we can thence certainly 292 IV, II | have such ideas in their minds, when no such thing exists, 293 IV, II | any idea revived in our minds by our own memory, and actually 294 IV, II | actually coming into our minds by our senses, as we do 295 IV, III | ideas as these, in men’s minds, do these two names of the 296 IV, III | one upon another: but our minds not being able to discover 297 IV, III | set up by himself in men’s minds, which it is impossible 298 IV, III | the present state of our minds if we look a little into 299 IV, III | the operations of our own minds as the objects of reflection. 300 IV, III | their certain ideas into our minds? They are out of the reach 301 IV, III | account at all. That there are minds and thinking beings in other 302 IV, III | smell which we find in our minds,) we can have no distinct 303 IV, III | qualities which we have in our minds, can by us be no way deduced 304 IV, III | side, the operation of our minds upon our bodies is as inconceivable. 305 IV, III | themselves to set before their minds the ideas themselves that 306 IV, III | and find it only in our minds; and it is only the examining 307 IV, IV | those ideas which are in the minds of men.~9. Nor will it be 308 IV, V | ideas, as they are in our minds, stripped of names, they 309 IV, V | and often do frame in our minds the ideas themselves, without 310 IV, V | agree or disagree in men’s minds, the knowledge of truth 311 IV, V | agreement of the ideas in our minds: and the agreement of the 312 IV, V | the persuasion of our own minds, though the proposition 313 IV, VI | got root in most people’s minds who have received any tincture 314 IV, VI | ideas men have in their minds, though they carry a clear 315 IV, VI | real essences in our own minds, more certainly find out 316 IV, VI | matter, the idea in our minds would serve for the one 317 IV, VII | as soon as we have in our minds determined ideas, which 318 IV, VII | which being settled in the minds of their scholars as unquestionable 319 IV, VII | not so familiar to their minds as those general axioms 320 IV, VII | carefully settled in their minds. Though these particular 321 IV, VII | like to turn young men’s minds from the sincere search 322 IV, VII | establishment they have got in our minds by our often thinking of 323 IV, VII | thinking and reasoning in our minds, I am apt to imagine it 324 IV, VII | improving or establishing our minds in true knowledge, that 325 IV, VII | predication of them in our minds, or in words standing for 326 IV, VII | mistaken whilst they are in our minds; though we may be and often 327 IV, VII | ideas are determined in our minds, and have annexed to them 328 IV, X | original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his 329 IV, X | with those faculties our minds are endowed with, he hath 330 IV, X | if we will but apply our minds to that, as we do to several 331 IV, X | that idea of God in their minds, (for it is evident some 332 IV, X | letting slide out of their minds, or the discourse, the demonstration 333 IV, X | action or thought of our own minds, and are not, nor can be, 334 IV, XI | abstract ideas of our own minds; yet it is an assurance 335 IV, XI | sense produced in their minds. This is too evident to 336 IV, XI | of it is revived in our minds, gives us no disturbance; 337 IV, XI | but ideas floating in our minds, and appearances entertaining 338 IV, XI | have those ideas in our minds, and know we have them there, 339 IV, XI | have of such beings in our minds, than by the ideas any one 340 IV, XI | producing ideas in our minds by our senses: in the latter, 341 IV, XI | they will) that are in our minds, producing there general 342 IV, XI | all or any of them, in the minds of all men; or that they 343 IV, XII | think, to get and fix in our minds clear, distinct, and complete 344 IV, XII | and thereby putting our minds into the disposal of others.~ 345 IV, XII | to get and settle in our minds determined ideas of those 346 IV, XII | clear and distinct in our minds. For it being evident that 347 IV, XVI | reasons, or capricios, men’s minds are acted by, (impossible 348 IV, XVI | that are established in our minds, and as they hold proportion 349 IV, XVI | mighty influence on the minds of men, to make them give 350 IV, XVI | absolutely determines our minds, and as perfectly excludes 351 IV, XVII | observe the actings of our own minds, we shall find that we reason 352 IV, XVII | of the operations of out minds, and of the beginning of 353 IV, XVII | or errors they fill men’s minds with are everywhere observable.~ 354 IV, XVIII | excite and revive in our minds latent ideas; but yet only 355 IV, XVIII | by words, produce in the minds of other men those ideas 356 IV, XVIII | introduce them into our minds. Because the natural ways 357 IV, XIX | gets not possession of our minds by the irresistible light 358 IV, XIX | Enthusiastic impulse. Their minds being thus prepared, whatever 359 IV, XIX | Spirit brings light into our minds, it dispels darkness. We 360 IV, XIX | that any proposition in our minds is a truth infused by God; 361 IV, XIX | enlightened with, came into their minds, and are established there. 362 IV, XIX | which shines bright in their minds, and they cannot resist: 363 IV, XIX | persuasion of their own minds, that it is a truth. For 364 IV, XIX | truths, shining in their minds with the clearest light.~ 365 IV, XIX | of assurance in their own minds, to testify to them that 366 IV, XIX | persuasion of their own minds, without any other proof, 367 IV, XIX | sometimes enlighten men’s minds in the apprehending of certain 368 IV, XIX | extraordinarily operating on our minds, yet we are sure it is warranted 369 IV, XIX | stamp. The bent of our own minds may favour it as much as 370 IV, XX | contentedly suffer their minds to appear abroad in a piebald 371 IV, XX | children’s receiving into their minds propositions (especially 372 IV, XX | to be as ancient in their minds as their very memories, 373 IV, XX | Thummim set up in their minds immediately by God himself, 374 IV, XX | which will outweigh. Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist 375 IV, XX | two ideas appears to our minds, whether immediately or