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The Contents.
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CHAPTER IV.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT INNATE PRINCIPLES, BOTH SPECULATIVE AND PRACTICAL.

SECT.
1. Principles not innate, unless their ideas be innate.
2, 3. Ideas, especially those belonging to principles, not born with children.
4, 5. Identity, an idea not innate.
6. Whole and part, not innate ideas.
7. Idea of worship not innate.
8–11. Idea of God, not innate.
12. Suitable to God's goodness, that all men should have an idea of him, therefore naturally imprinted by him, answered.
13–16. Ideas of God various in different men.
17. If the idea of God be not innate, no other can be supposed innate.
18. Idea of substance not innate.
19. No propositions can be innate, since no ideas are innate.
20. No ideas are remembered, till after they have been introduced.
21. Principles not innate, because of little use, or little certainty.
22. Difference of men's discoveries depends upon the different applications of their faculties.
23. Men must think and know for themselves.
24. Whence the opinion of innate principles.
25. Conclusion.

BOOK II.
CHAPTER I.

OF IDEAS IN GENERAL.

SECT.
1. Idea is the object of thinking.
2. All ideas come from sensation or reflection.
3. The objects of sensation one source of ideas.
4. The operations of our minds, the other source of them.
5. All our ideas are of the one or the other of these.
6. Observable in children.
7. Men are differently furnished with these, according to the different objects they converse with.
8. Ideas of reflection later, because they need attention.
9. The soul begins to have ideas when it begins to perceive.
10. The soul thinks not always; for this wants proofs.