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  1   Read         |            seemed to me to be right; thinking myself more concerned to
  2    Int         |             can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently
  3      I,  I     |           rational age, without ever thinking on this and the like general
  4      I,  II    |             is not every studious or thinking man, much less every one
  5      I,  II    |             what can hinder him from thinking them sacred, when he finds
  6      I,  III   |   remembering from all other ways of thinking. Whatever idea was never
  7     II,  I     |             1. Idea is the object of thinking. Every man being conscious
  8     II,  I     |              is applied about whilst thinking being the ideas that are
  9     II,  I     |      whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant,
 10     II,  I     |            with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains
 11     II,  I     |             And such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning,
 12     II,  I     |              exists; and that actual thinking is as inseparable from the
 13     II,  I     |    operations. And therefore, though thinking be supposed never so much
 14     II,  I     |             that it should be always thinking, always in action. That,
 15     II,  I     |              For, to say that actual thinking is essential to the soul,
 16     II,  I     |             ask whether, during such thinking, it has any pleasure or
 17     II,  I     |           body is sleeping, have its thinking, enjoyments, and concerns,
 18     II,  I     |      liberally allow life, without a thinking soul, to all other animals.
 19     II,  I     |             chooses for its scene of thinking the body of another man,
 20     II,  I     |            turns; and the soul still thinking in the waking man, whereof
 21     II,  I     |              that the soul is always thinking. Those, at least, who do
 22     II,  I     |         should be this moment busy a thinking, and the next moment in
 23     II,  I     |            is a very useless sort of thinking; and the soul, in such a
 24     II,  I     |             soul, in such a state of thinking, does very little, if at
 25     II,  I     |        employed, and made use of, in thinking; and that the memory of
 26     II,  I     |         traces there left after such thinking; but that in the thinking
 27     II,  I     |            thinking; but that in the thinking of the soul, which is not
 28     II,  I     |              but little advantage by thinking. If it has no memory of
 29     II,  I     |             They who make the soul a thinking thing, at this rate, will
 30     II,  I     |             of a soul that perish in thinking; that, once out of sight,
 31     II,  I     |           the perfection of rational thinking to the body: if it does
 32     II,  I     |         should never, in its private thinking, (so private, that the man
 33     II,  I     |              a man should be busy in thinking, and yet not retain it the
 34     II,  I     |              that very sensation, as thinking consists in being conscious
 35     II,  I     |              conscious to himself of thinking, I ask, How they know it?
 36     II,  I     |              what he was that moment thinking of. If he himself be conscious
 37     II,  I     |           can assure him that he was thinking. May he not, with more reason,
 38     II,  I     |              lives pass away without thinking. For no definitions that
 39     II,  I     |            to improve its faculty of thinking in the several parts of
 40     II,  I     |        reasoning, and other modes of thinking.~21. State of a child in
 41     II,  I     |              soul accustomed to much thinking in a new-born child, and
 42     II,  IV    |      consists, when he tells me what thinking is, or wherein it consists;
 43     II,  VI    |           these two:— Perception, or Thinking; and Volition, or Willing.~
 44     II,  VI    |             or Willing.~The power of thinking is called the Understanding,
 45     II,  VII   |        excite us to these actions of thinking and motion that we are capable
 46     II,  IX    |    reflection, and is by some called thinking in general. Though thinking,
 47     II,  IX    |          thinking in general. Though thinking, in the propriety of the
 48     II,  IX    |             cube.”—I agree with this thinking gentleman, whom I am proud
 49     II,  X     |      advantage to the knowledge of a thinking man,—if all his past thoughts
 50     II,  XI    |              continually employed in thinking. On this faculty of distinguishing
 51     II,  XII   |              kind of operations of a thinking substance, than what it
 52     II,  XIII  |         different from body, because thinking includes not the idea of
 53     II,  XIII  |           being as distinct ideas as thinking and extension, and as wholly
 54     II,  XIII  |       without its extension, without thinking of their separation. One
 55     II,  XIII  |           which could not think, and thinking beings that were not extended?—
 56     II,  XIII  |            would fain meet with that thinking man that can in his thoughts
 57     II,  XIII  |            he can to duration; or by thinking hope to arrive at the end
 58     II,  XIII  |         minds, cannot much differ in thinking; however they may perplex
 59     II,  XIII  |           should happen that any two thinking men should really have different
 60     II,  XIV   |          duration. For whilst we are thinking, or whilst we receive successively
 61     II,  XIV   |           thing co-existent with our thinking.~4. Proof that its idea
 62     II,  XIV   |            hour of quiet he has been thinking, he will perceive the various
 63     II,  XIV   |            had any motion, barely by thinking that the duration of light
 64     II,  XVII  |              of mind reach it, or by thinking comprehend it; which is
 65     II,  XVIII |      instanced in, as also power and thinking, have been thus modified
 66     II,  XIX   |          Chapter XIX~Of the Modes of Thinking ~1. Sensation, remembrance,
 67     II,  XIX   |         contemplation, &c., modes of thinking. When the mind turns its
 68     II,  XIX   |        contemplates its own actions, thinking is the first that occurs.
 69     II,  XIX   |           all other modifications of thinking, furnishes the mind with
 70     II,  XIX   |          examined.~2. Other modes of thinking. These are some few instances
 71     II,  XIX   |            of those various modes of thinking, which the mind may observe
 72     II,  XIX   |            of the mind, and modes of thinking.~3. The various degrees
 73     II,  XIX   |              degrees of attention in thinking. But perhaps it may not
 74     II,  XIX   |       different state of the mind in thinking, which those instances of
 75     II,  XIX   |            Hence it is probable that thinking is the action, not the essence
 76     II,  XIX   |             remission of the mind in thinking, with a great variety of
 77     II,  XIX   |             and incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming.
 78     II,  XIX   |            times, several degrees of thinking, and be sometimes, even
 79     II,  XIX   |             it be not probable, that thinking is the action and not the
 80     II,  XXI   |        whereof we have an idea, viz. thinking and motion, let us consider
 81     II,  XXI   |        produce these actions. (1) Of thinking, body affords us no idea
 82     II,  XXI   |             said, to these two, viz. thinking and motion; so far as a
 83     II,  XXI   |            leaving us the liberty of thinking on other things, which we
 84     II,  XXI   |             are but several modes of thinking. And we may as properly
 85     II,  XXI   |             action. For the power of thinking operates not on the power
 86     II,  XXI   |             choosing on the power of thinking; no more than the power
 87     II,  XXI   |            mind, the cause of actual thinking on this or that thing: as
 88     II,  XXI   |              the state he was before thinking, or changes it; continues
 89     II,  XXI   |             power, in motions and in thinking. True notions concerning
 90     II,  XXI   |              action, viz. motion and thinking. These, in truth, though
 91     II,  XXI   |              at rest. So likewise in thinking, a power to receive ideas
 92     II,  XXI   |       substance is called a power of thinking: but this is but a passive
 93     II,  XXI   |              power of perception, or thinking; Motivity, or the power
 94     II,  XXII  |            combinations.~10. Motion, thinking, and power have been most
 95     II,  XXII  |         those have been these three:—thinking and motion (which are the
 96     II,  XXII  |              simple ideas, I say, of thinking, motion, and power, have
 97     II,  XXII  |            that the several modes of thinking and motion should be taken
 98     II,  XXII  |            nothing else but modes of thinking and willing; in corporeal
 99     II,  XXIII |           spirit, a thing capable of thinking; and so hardness, friability,
100     II,  XXIII |            figure, solidity, motion, thinking, or other observable ideas,
101     II,  XXIII |         operations of the mind, viz. thinking, reasoning, fearing, &c.,
102     II,  XXIII |        supposing a substance wherein thinking, knowing, doubting, and
103     II,  XXIII |    experiment daily in ourselves, as thinking, understanding, willing,
104     II,  XXIII |        putting together the ideas of thinking, perceiving, liberty, and
105     II,  XXIII |        putting together the ideas of thinking and willing, or the power
106     II,  XXIII |            as the other: the idea of thinking, and moving a body, being
107     II,  XXIII |            be, without an immaterial thinking being.~16. No idea of abstract
108     II,  XXIII |             of finite extension.~18. Thinking and motivity the primary
109     II,  XXIII |              peculiar to spirit, are thinking, and will, or a power of
110     II,  XXIII |             they cannot comprehend a thinking thing, which perhaps is
111     II,  XXIII |              hard to be conceived as thinking in a soul. If any one says
112     II,  XXIII |             the substance is of that thinking thing: No more, say I, knows
113     II,  XXIII |    incomprehensible as the manner of thinking, and how it is performed.~
114     II,  XXIII |              like, I say, concerning thinking and voluntary motion. Do
115     II,  XXIII |            hard to be conceived as a thinking immaterial one, whatever
116     II,  XXIII |              of it, than the idea of thinking.~28. Communication of motion
117     II,  XXIII |       unknown to us; and the idea of thinking in spirit, as clear as of
118     II,  XXIII |           reflection, that there are thinking ones: experience assures
119     II,  XXIII |      extension clearer than we do of thinking. If we would explain them
120     II,  XXIII |           properties of spirit, viz. thinking, and a power of action;
121     II,  XXIII |              of the several modes of thinking viz. believing, doubting,
122     II,  XXIII |             but the several modes of thinking. We have also the ideas
123     II,  XXIII |            more a contradiction that thinking should exist separate and
124     II,  XXIII |        separate and independent from thinking, they being both but simple
125     II,  XXIII |              distinct ideas in us of thinking, as of solidity, I know
126     II,  XXIII |              may not as well allow a thinking thing without solidity,
127     II,  XXIII |             as a solid thing without thinking, i.e. matter, to exist;
128     II,  XXIII |           not harder to conceive how thinking should exist without matter,
129     II,  XXVII |              it is not the idea of a thinking or rational being alone
130     II,  XXVII |            for;—which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that
131     II,  XXVII |           itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times
132     II,  XXVII |            which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me,
133     II,  XXVII |     consciousness always accompanies thinking, and it is that which makes
134     II,  XXVII | distinguishes himself from all other thinking things, in this alone consists
135     II,  XXVII |           the mind, whereby the same thinking thing would be always consciously
136     II,  XXVII |              whether we are the same thinking thing, i.e. the same substance
137     II,  XXVII |          vitally united to this same thinking conscious self, so that
138     II,  XXVII |            of ourselves; i.e. of our thinking conscious self. Thus, the
139     II,  XXVII |            therefore those who place thinking in an immaterial substance
140     II,  XXVII |            for fear of making brutes thinking things too.~13. Whether
141     II,  XXVII |             13. Whether in change of thinking substances there can be
142     II,  XXVII |       question, Whether, if the same thinking substance (supposing immaterial
143     II,  XXVII |              be transferred from one thinking substance to another. I
144     II,  XXVII |             it, and how performed by thinking substances, who cannot think
145     II,  XXVII |       clearer views of the nature of thinking substances, be best resolved
146     II,  XXVII |        against those who would place thinking in a system of fleeting
147     II,  XXVII |              be transferred from one thinking substance to another, it
148     II,  XXVII |            will be possible that two thinking substances may make but
149     II,  XXVII |               Self is that conscious thinking thing,—whatever substance
150     II,  XXVII |        consciousness of this present thinking thing can join itself, makes
151     II,  XXVII |              individual, immaterial, thinking substance; in short, the
152     II,  XXVII |               For, granting that the thinking substance in man must be
153     II,  XXVII |              evident that immaterial thinking thing may sometimes part
154     II,  XXVII |        vitally united to the present thinking being is a part of that
155     II,  XXVII |             in of the nature of that thinking thing that is in us, and
156     II,  XXVII |            perform its operations of thinking and memory out of a body
157     II,  XXVIII|            retain still the power of thinking well or ill, approving or
158     II,  XXXI  |             designs that his idea in thinking should be conformable to
159     II,  XXXI  |           the pattern of his idea in thinking, as the other man’s word
160     II,  XXXII |              idea in my mind without thinking either that existence, or
161     II,  XXXIII|             Custom settles habits of thinking in the understanding, as
162     II,  XXXIII|             far as we can comprehend thinking, thus ideas seem to be produced
163    III,  I     |          applied to certain modes of thinking. Spirit, in its primary
164    III,  VI    |          actions of our own minds in thinking, and being delighted, and
165    III,  VI    |       inaccurate ways of talking and thinking; yet men are far enough
166    III,  XI    |             random, and without much thinking, and seldom frame determined
167     IV,  II    |           reflect on our own ways of thinking, we will find, that sometimes
168     IV,  III   |              the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never
169     IV,  III   |            to matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance: it
170     IV,  III   |      superadd to matter a faculty of thinking, than that he should superadd
171     IV,  III   |          substance with a faculty of thinking; since we know not wherein
172     IV,  III   |            since we know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort
173     IV,  III   |               that the first Eternal thinking Being, or Omnipotent Spirit,
174     IV,  III   |        unextended substance, or as a thinking extended matter, the difficulty
175     IV,  III   |         communication always, and in thinking often, does not steadily
176     IV,  III   |           enlarged understandings of thinking men find themselves puzzled
177     IV,  III   |             That there are minds and thinking beings in other men as well
178     IV,  V     |            men, if not all, in their thinking and reasonings within themselves,
179     IV,  V     |            the way our mind takes in thinking and reasoning, we shall
180     IV,  V     |              is so familiar to every thinking and reasoning man, is easier
181     IV,  VI    |    operations of spirits, both their thinking and moving of bodies, we
182     IV,  VII   |            in our minds by our often thinking of them, than from the different
183     IV,  VII   |        custom has settled methods of thinking and reasoning in our minds,
184     IV,  VII   |       because men mistake generally,—thinking that where the same terms
185     IV,  IX    |             sensation, reasoning, or thinking, we are conscious to ourselves
186     IV,  X     |           nails.~Secondly, sensible, thinking, perceiving beings, such
187     IV,  X     |              matter should produce a thinking intelligent being, as that
188     IV,  X     |          spiritualizing, or making a thinking thing of it,) vary the figure
189     IV,  X     |             does not follow but that thinking Being may also be material.
190     IV,  X     |       manifestly separate matter and thinking, and suppose no necessary
191     IV,  X     |   unavoidably to be granted. Now, if thinking and matter may be separated,
192     IV,  X     |            others, that this eternal thinking Being is material.~I. I
193     IV,  X     |             would be as many eternal thinking beings as there are particles
194     IV,  X     |              they suppose one single thinking atom to have produced all
195     IV,  X     |             account than that of its thinking, the only supposed difference.
196     IV,  X     |              equally eternal as that thinking atom, it will be to say
197     IV,  X     |            alone can be this eternal thinking being; nor all matter, as
198     IV,  X     |           put together, that is this thinking eternal Being. This is that
199     IV,  X     |             they take to be material thinking beings. But this imagination,
200     IV,  X     |           for to suppose the eternal thinking Being to be nothing else
201     IV,  X     |             of the parts wherein its thinking consists. If it be perfectly
202     IV,  X     |            of its parts on which its thinking depends, all the thoughts
203     IV,  X     |            and all rational and wise thinking or acting, will be quite
204     IV,  X     |           taken away: so that such a thinking being will be no better
205     IV,  X     |           mentioned; since, let this thinking system be all or a part
206     IV,  X     |           not you, it makes not that thinking thing you are; (for I have
207     IV,  X     |              an eternal, immaterial, thinking Being, but would have unthinking
208     IV,  X     |             therefore, when did that thinking thing begin to be? If it
209     IV,  X     |          then have you always been a thinking thing from eternity; the
210     IV,  X     |           therefore, you can allow a thinking thing to be made out of
211     IV,  X     |           your own finite mind, that thinking thing within you, do not
212     IV,  XVII  |         other ideas.~Judgment is the thinking or taking two ideas to agree
213     IV,  XVIII |            God, that he cannot avoid thinking them ridiculous and offensive
214     IV,  XX    |              particularly adapted to thinking; or in the dullness or untractableness