11, 12. Therefore there has been 14. Not material, first, because SECT. 1. Is to be had only by sen- 2. Instance, whiteness of this 3. This, though not so cer- from actual sensation, and 7. Fourthly, our senses assist one another's testimony of nion.) 3. But from the comparing clear and distinct ideas. compare clear, 7. The true method of ad- 8. By which, morality, also, is to be improved only by 10. This may procure us con- 12. But must beware of hypo- 7. Unquestionable testimony 8. Fair testimony, and the 9. Experience and testimonies 11. Yet history is of great use. 14. The bare testimony of re- 15. The next is demonstration 16. To supply the narrowness 17. Intuition, demonstration, 18. Consequences of words, OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. BOOK III. CHAP. VII. Of Particles. Particles ther. 1. BESIDES words which are names of ideas in the mind, there are a great many connect others that are made use of, to signify the parts, or connexion that the mind gives to ideas, or whole senpropositions, one with another. The mind, tences togein communicating its thoughts to others, does not only need signs of the ideas it has then before it, but others also, to show or intimate some particular action of its own, at that time, relating to those ideas. This it does several ways; as is, and is not, are the general marks of the mind, affirming or denying. But besides affirmation or negation, without which there is in words no truth or falsehood, the mind does, in declaring its sentiments to others, connect not only the parts of propositions, but whole sentences one to another, with their several relations and dependencies, to make a coherent discourse. §2. The words, whereby it signifies In them conwhat connexion it gives to the several affirm- sists the art ations and negations, that it unites in one of wellcontinued reasoning or narration, are gene- speaking. rally called particles; and it is in the right use of these, that more particularly consists the clearness and beauty of a good style. To think well, it is not enough that a VOL. II. B |