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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49314	A discourse concerning the nature of man both in his natural and political capacity, both as he is a rational creature and member of a civil society : with an examination of Mr. Hobbs's opinions relating hereunto / by Ja. Lowde ...	Lowde, James.	1694 (1694)	Wing L3299; ESTC R36487	110,040	272

towards his Neighbour by observing the great Rule of doing as he would be done by such an one tho' never so ignorant in other things yet contributes his share to the common good c. There is no doubt but he doth but then may we not rather argue thus that since Men do not ordinarily reduce the Laws of Nature into that one single Proposition as indeed having no explicit notion of it and yet do their Duties both towards God their Neighbours and themselves that therefore they have some other way of coming to the Knowledge of their Duty without resolving the Laws of Nature into their proper Causes as it is called Dr. Lock the Ingenious Author of the Essay of humane Vnderstanding has spent the First Part of his Book wholly against these innate Principles relating either to Speculation or Practice One great objection that he brings against 'em is this that Children and Ideots have no apprehension of 'em and therefore they cannot be any original Impressions upon the minds of Men because if they were they would soonest appear in such these being suppos'd now to be in puris naturalibus not tinctur'd with any adventitious prejudices of Art or Education and upon this account also there cannot be pleaded that universal consent that is pretended to be given to these original Notions or common Principles seeing thus perhaps one third part of Mankind do not assent to ' em In Answer hereto 1. I observe that those who make this objection as I before intimated will not give the Defendant leave to state his own Question and explain his own sense and meaning of it but will put such a sense upon these words innat●●●r natural as if a thing could not be thus natural or innate to the Soul unless it did so immediately and necessarily stare Children and Fools in the Face that they must necessarily assent thereto even before by the common course of nature they are capable of assenting to any thing whereas those who defend this Question make these ●●●●●●l or innate notions more conditional things depending upon the Concurrence of several other circumstances in order to the Souls exerting of ' em Thus the Ingenious Mr. Tyrrell has well observ'd of Mr. Hobs that he only takes the measure of humane nature from those Passions which precede the use of reason and as they first and chiesly shew themselves in Children and Fools and Persons unexperienc'd where as according to the Opinion of the best Philosophers we suppose the truer nature of man ought rather to be taken from his utmost perfection viz. his reason c. p. 256. So here 't is thought that the truer judgment of these natural notions ought to be taken rather from the most perfect state of Man rather than as they either do or do not show themselves in Children and Ideots And whereas 't is asserted that these general Maxims are assented to as soon as propos'd and the terms rightly understood to this the Ingenious Author Dr. Lock replies that then there must be an infinite number of innate notions even those which no one ever yet pretended to be such as an Apple is not an Oyster black is not white c. Now these and such as these he says are more readily assented to than those quicquid agit est contradictories cannot be both true at once c. because Children and Fools will readily assent to the former but these latter require more attentive-thought and consideration for the understanding of ' em I shall not here mention that distinction which the Logicians perhaps would make use of in this Case of some things being more known in themselves and yet not so to us because I know not what credit now a-days may be given to Men of that old-fashion'd way of thinking But the Ingenious Author himself doth assert these three ways of acquiring Knowledge First By intuition thus we have the knowledge of our being p. 318. Man also knows by intuitive certainly that bare nothing cannot produce any real being p. 312. The second way of Knowledge is by Reason Thirdly By Sensation Now the Knowledge of these Universal Truths or general Maxims I conceive is by the first way rather by intuition than by reasoning or by the consent or dissent of the terms For these Propositions Cogito ergo sum or that upon which this depends quicquid agit est bare nothing cannot produce a real being the truth of these Propositions doth not so much depend upon any consideration of the terms but seems rather the summary result of the whole which that Author seems very well to express by intuition or intuitive certainly But then as to those other Propositions wherein we deny one Idea of another as a Man is not an Horse blue is nor yellow c. The truth of these depends upon the actual existence of Things and the consensus dissensus terminorum But Mr. Norris the ingenious Author of the Reflections upon the foresaid Essay of Humane Vnderstanding pag. 20. doth not allow any such Things as Mental Impressions or Characters upon the Mind what way soever they may pretend to come there So that though he agrees with Dr. Lock in denying all natural and innate Notions in the Mind of Man yet it is for other Reasons than those which Dr. Lock goes upon and upon a far different Hypothesis So that Mr. Norris his Reflections may be a sufficient Answer to Dr. Lock 's Opinion as it is defended by him shewing the invalidity of the Grounds and Reasons upon which he founds it though in the mean time he agrees with him in the conclusion in denying all Natural and Native Characters upon the Soul Which thing says he in the place above cited Of Mental Impressions or Characters written upon the Mind if it pretend to any thing more than Figure and Metaphor I take to be meer Iargon and unintelligible Cant. But here I humbly conceive that when we speak of Natural Notions or Native Impressions of Truth and Goodness made upon the Minds of Men though perhaps there may be something of Metaphor in it yet the sense and meaning of it is generally understood nor is there any danger lest any one should hence conclude the Soul to be made of White-paper and the Knowledge we find there to be written with Pen and Ink Heb. 10. 26. I will put my laws in their hearts and in or upon their minds will I write them That is says Dr. Taylor Duct Dubit p. 4. You shall be govern'd by the Law of natural and essential Equity and Reason by that Law which is put into every Man's Nature and besides this whatsoever else shall be super-induc'd shall be written in their Minds by the Spirit who shall write all the Laws of Christianity in the Tables of your Consciences Now I do not see any need of any such curious Remark either upon the Text or Comment that if this pretend to any thing more than Figure or