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Show qo PorJJer. Book II. worfi that comes to the pious Man, if he miftake, be the hefi that the wick~ can attain to, ifbe he in the right, Who can Without madnefs run the venture~ Who in his Wits would chufe to come Within a poOibility of infinite Mifery, which if he mifs, there is yet nothing to be got by that hazard 1 Whereas on the otber fide, . the foher Man ventures nothing againfi infinite Happinefs to he go~, 1flus Expedat10n comes to pafs. If the good Man be in the right, he IS eternally happy : .'f he m1fiake, he is not miferable he feels nothmg. On the other fide, tf the w1cked hem the right, he is' not happy: if he mifiake,he is infinitely miferable. Mufi it not he a mofi manifefi wrong Judgment, that does not prcfemly fee, to which fide in this cafe, the preference is to he given. I haveforborn to .mention any ~bing of the certainty, or probability of a future State, dcfigning here to fhew the wrong Judgment, that any one mufi allow, he makes, upon his own Principles laid how he pl~afes, who prefers the fhort pleafures of a vicious Life upon any confideranon, wlulfi he knows, and cannot but be certain, that a future Life is at leafi poilible. §. 46. Untler this fimple !tlea of Power, I have taken occafion to explain our /dur o£ Will, 1/olltmt, Lr~erty, and Necej!ity; wh1ch havmg a greater mixture in them, than belongs barely to fimple Modes, might perhaps, be better ·placed amongfi the more complex. For Will, for example, contains in it the. Idea of a. Power to prefer the domg, to the not doing any particular Achon (& 7JJCe verfa) wh1ch tt has thought on; which preference isltruly a ¥ode of Thinking, and fo the !tie a which the word Wlllfiands for,.~s. acomplex and mixed one,made up of the limple Ideas of Power, and a certain Mode of Thinking : and the U ta of Liberty is yet more c:Omplex, bein~ made up of1the Idea. of a Pqwer to act, or not to aCt, in conformity to V ql,ition. But I hoped this tranfgreffion, againfi the method I have propofed to my felf, will be forgiven me, ifl have quitted it a little, to explain fame Ideas of great importance ; fuch as are thofe of the Wiii,• Li~erty,and NecejJity, in this place, where they; as it were,offered themfelvGs, and fprang up from their proper roots. Betides, having before largely enough infianced. in fevcral t.imple Modes, to fhew what I meant by them, and how the Mind got them, (for lintend not to enumerate all the particular ideas of each fort,) thefeof Wilt, Lihrty, and NueffitJ, may ferve as infiances of mixed Modes, which are that fort of Ideas I purpofe next to treat of. §. 47. And thus l have, in a fhort draught, given a view of our ori• ginal ideas, from whence all the refi are derived , and of which they are made up; which if I would !confider, as a Philofopher, and examine on what Caufes they depend, and of what the:!' are made , l believe they all· might be reduced to thefe very_ few primary, and original ones, vh. , 1 ' Exten/iow, Solidity, Mobility; which by our Senfes we receive from Body: ' l'binking, 11nd the •rl 1 ··• -· Power of Mo,i•g; which by refiection we receive from our Minds; to which if we add Exifte,re, 1 Durati~11, Number; which belong both to the one, and the other,we ha.ve, perli~ps, all the ori-< .. pd Chap: XXII. Mixed Moder. ginal/dear oh which the r:fi depend. For by thefe, l imagine, might be explained the nature of Colours, Sou.nds, T:itles, Smells, and all other ]d!as we have , if we harl but Faculties atute enough to perce1ve the ft:verally modified Extcnfions , a~d !'1otions , of thefe hlinute Bodies, which produce thofe feveral Sehfat!Ons m us. But my prefent vurpofe be· ing to enquire only into the Knowledge the Mind has of Things, by thofe ]deas and Appearances God has fitted It to receive from them,and liow the Misld' comes by that Knowledge; rather than into their Caufes,or manner of Production, l fhall not, contrary to the Defign of this Effay, fet my fclf to enquire philofophically irtto the peculiar Ccnfiitution of Bodies, and the Confi<>utation of Parts, whereby they have the power to produce in us th~ ideas of their ferifible Q,Jalities: I fhall not enter any farther into that Difquifirion; it fufficing to my purpofe to obferve, That Gold, or Saffion, has a power to produce in us the Idea of Yellow· and Snow, or Milk, the Idea of White; which we ead have only by' our Sight , with~ut examining the Texture of the Par~s of thofc Bodies or the particular F1gures , .or Monon of the Parucles, which rcbou~d from them, to caufe in us that particular Senfatiorl ~ Though when we go beyond the bare !dear in o~r Minds, and would enquire into their Caufes, we can~ot conce1ve :lny dung elfe, w be in any fenfible Object , ~vhereby It produces different !dear m ~s~ but the different Bulk, F1gure, Number; TextUre, and Monon of ItS infcn!ible Parts. CHAP. XXII. Of .:Mixed .!ModtJ. §. r. HAvi~g treated af Simple Moder in the foregoing Chapters, and given feveral infiances of fame of the mofi confiderable ?f them, to !hew what they ate, and how we come by them ; we are now u1 the next place to confider rhofe we call Mrxed Moder, fuch arc the. Complex Ideas, we make by the names Obligation, Drunkennefs, a LIC,. &c. "hichconfifiing offeveral Combinations offimple !dear of dlfferentk1nds, J have called Nixed Modu, to dillinguilh them from. the more li~plc Modes whichconfitls only of fimpleid~asofthe fame kmd. Thcfe m1xed Modes' being alfo flA:h Combinations of fimple id~as, as are not looked upon to. be the charaCterifrical Marks of any real Bemgs that have a fieady exifience , but fcattered and independent !dear , put toðer by the Mind, are thereby difringuifhed from thecomp(ex Idear.of Subllances. Q. 2 . That the Mind, in refpe8 of 1ts limple !dear, 1s wholl;r paffive, and receives them all from the Exiftence and Opera nons of Thmgs, fuch as Senfation or Reflection offers them, Without bemg able to make any one Idea Experience fhews us. But if we attentively confider thefeidear J call mixed Moder, we are now fpeaking of, we fhall find the~tOngmal quite different. Tbe fr!ind here ofte~ exemferan al/rve Power .rn the ma. king tb,fo feveral Combin•tionr : for 1t bCmg once fur~1lhed With limple ft!e.s , it can put them together in· fe~e:al Compofiuons, and fo make Vlriety of complex it/ens, without exam101ng whether they eXIIl fo together in Nature. And hence, 1 think, it is, that thefe fort of Ucas are called Notions. as if they had their Original, and conllaot Extftence more ' S l. m qr |
