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Human Soul. — T'hs latent Ideas in us not called up by an Act of the 

 Mind, like the Ideas ive have already acquired. — That ivc have no 

 confcioufnefs of any thing in a State of pre-exi/lence, no proof that there 

 ivas nofuchState. — Mr Locke's Error^ inconjounding Confcioufnefs 

 and\6,cn\.\X.j . — The Intelledual Part of us may be dormant and quiefcent 

 for fame Time. — This agreeable to the Analogy of Nature. — In/lances 

 offuch a State, both in the Vegetable and the Animal, — Our Intel- 

 led;ual VA.rX.fome times quiefcent, even after ive are groivn up. — 

 Ideas even then lie dortnant in our Minds_/or Tears. 



IN the preceding Chapter, I think, I have fhown, that there are 

 very many of our Ideas, and thefe of the greateft importance, 

 which are not derived from Body. The Reader, I believe, will not 

 be inclined to divide the matter, or to think that fome of them come 

 from Body, and fome from Mind ; and, therefore, I hope he will 

 be prepared for the general propofition which I am to maintain in 

 this Chapter, that all the Ideas of our Mind can come from no other 

 fource than the Mind itfelf. This, I think, I am able to demon- 

 ftrate from the account I have given of Ideas in the preceding 

 Book, and the diftindlion I have made betwixt them and 

 Senfations. I have there fhown, that, by the Senfes, we only 

 apprehend the external and material Qualities of things, which are 

 continually changing and paffing away, as well as the Matter in 

 which they are inherent ; whereas, by the Intel ledl, we apprehend 

 the Nature and Eflence of the Thing, that which makes every thing 

 what it is, and continues always the fame, in all the viciflitudes of 

 Generation and Corruption and amid all the changes to which the 

 material and outward Form of the thing is liable. And this is what, 

 in the genuine fenfe of the word, and, as it is ufed by antlent philo- 

 fophers, is an Idea ; which, therefore, they fay, is eternal and un- 



A a 2 changeable. 



