Chap. I. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 



BOOK IV. 



Of the Origin of our Ideas, and the feveral Properties 

 of Mind. 



CHAP. I. 



Ariftotle has /aid nothing of the Origin of our Ideas. — Different Opi- 

 nions of his Co7nnientators upon the Subje^. — Mr Locke's Difco've- 

 ries upon this Subjed. — All our Ideas, accorcfuig to him^ derived 



from Corporeal Objects that are in perpetual Change. — This Ma- 

 terial Origin of our Ideas degrades the Human Mind — fuppofes 

 that the Soul had no Exiftence before it came into this Body. — All 

 Ideas not derived from Niaiter, particularly the Ideas of Mind. — 

 Our Mind, being after the Image of, God, has fome of thoje underived 

 Ideas. — -^// Ideas that are not, originally. Perceptions <)/ Senfc, 

 cannot be derived from Sen{e. — -Exatnples o/' original Ideas m otfr 

 Minds. — The Idea o/'Subftance 07ie of thefe. — Mr Locke's Notion of 

 Subftance. — No Knowledge of any thing ivithout the Idea oj Sub- 

 ftance. — The Idea o/" Matter and Yorm, another Example — a If o of 

 Caufe and Effect. — Mr Hume argued ivell, ivhen he denied, upon 

 the Principles of Mr Locke's Philofophy, that there ivas any Idea 

 o/" Caufe and Effedt — alfo the Idea o/" Beauty. — Mr Locke's impcr- 



feEl Notion o/" Beauty. — Alfo the Idea of Good, not derived f'om 

 Senfe or Refledtion. — Jlfo the 'whole Clafs of Ideas oJ Relation. — 

 The ayitient Divifion and CloJJif cation <?/ Ideas, different from Mr 



Locke's. 



