4*S Modes and Sulftances. [Book X, 



&c. do not furnilh any diftinft idea ; we can have no 

 clear idea, but of a particular colour, &c. as will be 

 explained when 1 come to fpeak of words. 



Mixed modes are defined by Mr. Locke to be 

 " fuch combinations of fimple ideas, as are not locked 

 upon to be the charafteriftical marks of any real beings 

 that have a fteady exiftence; but fcattered and inde- 

 pendent ideas, put together by the mind, are thereby 

 diftinguifhed- from the complex ideas of fubftances *,'' 

 iuch are hyfocrijy, drunkennejs , &c. . The ideas of 

 mixed modes are acquired firft from experience ; as 

 by feeing two men wreftle, we acquire the idea of 

 *&reftling. 2d, By putting together in the mind feveral 

 fucceffive actions, as a lie. 



* Locke, B. 2. c. 22. 



