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Show ., Real 4nd.Fhantaftical Ideas. Book II. red tothofe kind of la'eas,tomake them real, but that they be fo framed that there be a poilibility of exiiling conformable to them. Thefe Ideas, being themfelves Archetypes, cannot differ from their Achetypes, and fo can· not 6t chimaical, unlefs any one will jumble together in them inconfinent Ideas. Indeed, as any of them have -the Names of a known Language ailigned to them, by which, he that has them in his Mind, would fignifie (hem to others, fo barely Poilibility of e_xifiing is not enough ; they muft bave aCootormtty to the ordmary S•gmficatlOn of the Name that is given Jhem, th:l.itlley may not be thought_phantafiieal: as if a Man would give the Name of Julhce to that Idea, wlucl1 common ufe calls Liberality: But this Phantafiicalnefs relates more to Propriety of Speech, than Reality of Idcas. For a Man to be undifiurbed in Danger, but fedately co confider what is fittefl: to be done, and to execute it fieadily, is a mixed Mode or a complex Idea of an Mlion which may exifi. But to be undifiurbed in Danger, wjtbout ufing ones Reafon or Indufiry, is what is alfo pol1ible to be; and fo is as real an Idca as the other. Though the firfi of thefe having the Name Courage gi~en to it, may, in relpect of that Name' be a right or wrong Idca: But the other, whilfi it has not a common re: ceived Name of any known Language ailigned to it, is not capable of any Rell:itude or Deformity, being made with no reference to any thing but its felf. . §.;. Thirdly, Our complex Ideas of Sub/lances, being made all of them in referenco to Thlngs exifting without us, and intended to be Reprefenta·· t.ions of Subfiances, as they really .are, are no farther real, than as they ~e f11ch Combmauons of fimple Idc-as, that are really united, and co-exifl: 111 Thmgs wtthout us, On the Contrary, thofe are phanta/lica!, which are made up of fuch Co}lections _of fimple Ideas, as were really never uni· ted, nev~ were found tog~ther tn a_n:y Subfiance ; 11. g. a rational Crea· tllre, mnfiiling of a Horfe s Head, JOtned to a body of humane Jhape or fuch .as the Centaurs are defcribed : Or, a Body, yellow very malleable fufiblc:. and fixed; but lig;hter than common Water: 0:, an uniform, un: orgamzed Body, confifimg as to Senfe, all of limilar Parts with Per· cepuon and voluntary Motion joined to it. Whether fuch S~bfiances as thefe, can p~ilibly exifi, or no, 'tis probable we do not know: But' be that as 1t wtll, thefe Ucas of Subfiances, being made conformable to no Pattern extfimg that we know ; and confifiing of fuch Collections of Ideas, as no Subfiance ever Chewed us united together they ought to pafs Wtth us for barely imaginary: But much m;re are thofc compl~x Ideas, which contain in them any Inconfifiencyor Contradiction of therr Parts. CHAP. Chap. XXX. Adequate and Inadequate Idw. CHAP. XXX. Of ....fdequate aHd I1iadequate Ideas_. ~.1. QF cur rcalldcas, fomeare Adequate, and fomeate IIia~equate. Thofe I call· Adequate, which perfect~~· rcprefent thof~ Arche• cypes, which the Mind fuppofes them taken from i which it iqtends them 10 !land lor ; and to wltich it refers t'Q.qr;n,.,lnadc~uate ideas are fuch, which are but a partial, or inco10pleat rep)·efentation oftl\ofe Archetyves to which they are referred. 4pon which a~count it is plain, ~ ~. Firfl, That all f'l.{ jimple Idcas are ade~uate. Beeaufo beiog nothing but t11e effeCl:s of.c;ertain Powers in Things, fitted and ordained by G 0 D, to produce. fuch ¥nfations in us, they cannot but be ~orrefrondent, and adequate tO thofe PQwcrs: 1\nd we are fure they agree to th~ reality ofThings. For if Sugar l'roduce in us the Ideas which we call Whiteue!S, and SweetneiS, we are fur~ tJ1ere is ~ power in Sugar to produce thq~ idea> in our Minds, orelfe1hey could no.t have been produ• f;ed, And foeachSerifat\on anfwering ' ~\le Power th~t operates on any of OU( Senfes, the Idea fo produced, is a n;lll/dea, (and not a llCtion of the .ldind,) which ~s no power toproduc,e any fim.{'le Idea ;and cannot but be adequate, fince it ought only t<> anfwer that power : and fo all flmple Jdw are adequate. 'T!S true, th~ .T~ings prqduci~g in us thefe fimple ldias, arc b1,1t few of !:\1em denommated by us, ' as tf they were only the< e~ufa;Qftllem; but as ifthofe Idea> were real Beings 'in them. Fortho11gh fire be call<~ painful to ·the Touch, whereby it_fignitled the_power of produci~ g in us the Idta of Pain: yet it.i.s denommatell alfo L>ght,and Hot; $5 if Lig\1t, and Heat, were really fomething in the Fire , more_ than a. power to excite thefe Idea> in us; ~nd therefOre are called Q;lahties: m, or of the fire. But thefe being nothing, in truth, but ppwers to e•cirefuch Uw in us,! mu(l, in that fenfe, be underfiood, When l fpeak of fecundary ~lities,as being in Things; or of their Ideas,as being in the Objects, that '~c;ite them in us. Such ways of fpeaking, thougl1 accommodated to the vulgar Notiops, without which , one c;annot be well underfiood ; yet Indy figoifie nothing, but thofe Powers, which are in Things, to ex~ite eenain Senfations (lr Ideas in m. Since were there no fit Organs to recetve IM impreilions Fire makes on the Sight and Tow;h; nor a!Vfindjoined tQ lhofe Organs, to receive the idea! of Light and Heat, by tljo(e imprefiions from tl1e Fire, or the Sun, therci would yet be no more Light, or Heat '"the Worlc\, thav there would be Pai111 if there were no fenlible Crca· tu~ to f~el i1, though the Sun fhould continue jufi as lt isnow,and Moqnt oi£1•• flan;1e higher chan ever it did. Sohdity, and Extenfion, and the ~mination of it, Figu:e , with Motion and Refi , whereof we have the ~(/tas, would be really in the World as rl1ey are, whether there were any ¥!nf1ble il<;iog t<;> perceive rhe10, or no: And therefore chafe we have rca· fon to !QOk on a< the real modifications of Matter ; and fuch as are the OX(iting C.1,1fc~ of all our various Senfations from Bodies. But this be' illl U1 £nq11irY not belonging to this place, I n1all enter no farther Into >t, Lut proceed to fhew what complex !dear are adequate, and what flOt, Z:z. |