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24. The original of all our

knowledge.

CHAP. VII.

25. In the reception of simple Of simple ideas, both of sensation

SECT.

ideas the understanding is

most of all passive.

CHAP. II.

Of simple ideas.

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SECT.

and reflection.

1-6. Pleasure and pain.

7. Existence and unity.

8. Power.

9. Succession.

10. Simple ideas the materials of all our knowledge.

CHAP. VIII.

Other considerations concerning simple ideas.

SECT.

1-6. Positive ideas from privative causes.

7, 8. Ideas in the mind, qualities in bodies.

9, 10. Primary and secondaryqualities.

11, 12. How primary qualities produce their ideas.

13, 14. How secondary.

15-23. Ideas of primary qualities, are resemblances; of secondary, not.

24, 25. Reason of our mistake in this.

26. Secondary qualities twofold; first, immediately perceivable; secondly, mediately perceivable.

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27. Ideas of space and solidity distinct.

28. Men differ little in clear simple ideas.

CHAP. XIV.

Of duration and its simple modes. SECT.

1. Duration is fleeting ex

tension.

24. Its idea from reflection

on the train of our ideas. 5. The idea of duration applicable to things whilst we sleep.

6-8. The idea of succession not from motion.

9-11. The train of ideas has a certain degree of quick

ness.

12. This train, the measure

of other successions.

13-15. The mind cannot fix long

on one invariable idea. 16. Ideas, however made, include no sense of motion.

17. Time is duration set out

by measures.
18. A good measure of time
must divide its whole
duration into equal pe-
riods.

19. The revolutions of the sun
and moon, the properest
measures of time.
20. But not by their motion,
but periodical appear-

ances.

21. No two parts of duration

can be certainly known to be equal.

22. Time not the measure

of motion.

23. Minutes, hours, and years,

not necessary measures of duration.

24-26. Our measure of time applicable to duration before time.

27-30. Eternity.

CHAP. XV.

Of duration and expansion considered together.

SECT.

1. Both capable of greater

and less.

2. Expansion not bounded by matter.

3. Nor duration by motion. 4. Why men more easily admit infinite duration, than infinite expansion.

5. Time to duration, is as place to expansion. 6. Time and place are taken for so much of either as are set out by the existence and motion of bo dies.

7. Sometimes for so much of either as we design by measure taken from the bulk or motion of bodies.

8. They belong to all beings.

9. All the parts of extension,

are extension; and all the parts of duration are duration.

10. Their parts inseparable. 11. Duration is as a line, expansion as a solid. 12. Duration has never two parts together, expansion all together.

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1. This idea how got.
2. Power active and pas-
sive.

3. Power includes relation.
4. The clearest idea of ac-
tive power had from
spirit.

5. Will and understanding,

two powers.
6. Faculties.

7. Whence the ideas of li-
berty and necessity.
8. Liberty, what.

9. Supposes understanding
and will.

10. Belongs not to volition. 11. Voluntary opposed to involuntary, not to necessary.

12. Liberty, what. 13. Necessity, what. 14-20. Liberty belongs not to the will.

21. But to the agent or

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40. The most pressing uneasiness naturally determines the will.

41. All desire happiness. 42. Happiness, what. 43. What good is desired, what not.

44. Why the greatest good is not always desired. 45: Why, not being desired, it moves not the will. 46. Due consideration raises desire.

47. The power to suspend the prosecution of any desire, makes way for consideration.

48. To be determined by our own judgment, is no restraint to liberty. 49. The freest agents are so determined.

50. A constant determination to a pursuit of happiness, no abridgment of liberty.

51. The necessity of pursuing true happiness, the foundation of all liberty.

52. The reason of it. 53. Government of our passions, the right improvement of liberty.

33. The uneasiness of desire 54, 55. How men come to pursue

determines the will.

34. This the spring of action. 35. The greatest positive good determines not the will, but uneasiness.

different courses.

56. How men come to choose

ill. 57. First, from bodily pains.

Secondly, from wrong de

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