Time a thouſand Things which I forgot at my Birth; and poſſeſſing when in the Womb, (tho' to no Manner of Purpoſe,) Knowledge which I loſt the Inſtant I had occaſion for it; and which I have never ſince been able to recover perfectly.
Mr. Locke after having deſtroy'd innate Ideas; after having fully renounc'd the Vanity of believing that we think always; after having laid down, from the moſt ſolid Principles, that Ideas enter the Mind through the Senſes; having examin'd our ſimple and complex Ideas; having trac'd the human Mind through its ſeveral Operations; having ſhew'd that all the Languages in the World are imperfect, and the great Abuſe that is made of Words every Moment; he at lat comes to conſider the Extent or rather the narrow Limits of human Knowledge. 'Twas in this Chapter he preſum'd to advance, but very modeſtly, the following Words, "We ſhall, perhaps, never be capable of knowing, whether a Being, purely material, thinks or not." This ſage
