CONTENTS. 



Body in this State— what AriJloiU means by the ^outi not hvhig or hating in iftparatt 

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BOOK IV. 



Of the Origin of our Ideas and the feveral Properties of Mind. 



C H A P. I. 



jirljiotle has faid nothing of the Origin of our Ideas — Different Opinions of his Com- 

 mentators upon the Subjeft — Mr. Lode's Difcoveries upon this Subje<9:— All our 

 IJi-js, according to him, derived from Corporeal Ohje£ls that are in perpetual Change— 

 This material Origin of our Ideas degrades the Human Mind — fuppofes that the Soul 

 had no ExiJIence before it came into this Body — All Ideas not derived from Mattery 

 particularly the Ideas of Mind — Our Mind, being after the Image of God, has fome 

 of thofe underived Ideas — All Ideas that arc not, originally. Perceptions of Senfe, can- 

 not be derived from Senfe — Examples of original Ideas in our Minds — The Idea of 

 Suljlance one of thefe — Mr, Locke's Notion of Suhjlance—'i^o Knowledge of any Thing 

 without the Idea of Subjlance — The Idea of Matter and Form^ another Example — 

 alfo of Caufe and EffeSi — Mr. Hume nrgued well, when he denied, upon the Prin- 

 ciples of Mr. Locke's Philofophy, that there was any Idea of Caufe and EffeH — alfo 

 the Ideaoi Beauty — Mr. Locke's imperfe£t Notion of Beauty — Alfo the Idea of Good, 

 not derived from Senfe ot Rejiefiion — Alfo the whole Clafs of Ideas of Relation — The 

 antient Divifion and Claflification of Ideas, different from Mr. Locke's — The new 

 Language, that Mr. Locke has introduced into Philofophy, not fo good as the an- 

 tient; — obfcure and complexed, compared with the antient — Two Reafons for infift- 

 ing fo much upon the Defefls of Mr. Locke's Philofophy, P- '73 



CHAP. II. 



The general Propofition maintained in this Chapter, That all Ideas are originally in the 

 Mind, is demondrated from the Nature of Ideas, and the Diftinftion betwixt them 

 and Senfations — All Ideas muft originate either from Mind or Body — The Ideas of Ex- 

 ternal Forms f\xi\. confidered — The Senfations which thefe Forms produce, not Ideas, 

 however much generalized or abftrafted they may be — Our 5^»/a/M«j not the Mate- 

 rials out of which Ideas can be made — Ideas refemble the Form of any Piece of Work- 

 manfhip, which is not from the Matter but from the Mind of the Artift — Without 

 Senfations we cannot have Ideas ; but Senfations, therefore, are not the Caufe of our 

 Ideas— 'They are excited by Stnfations — are lefs perfect at firft — more perfect after- 

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