And the use of reason becomes daily more visible, as these materials that give it employment increase.

But though the having of general ideas and the use of general words and reason usually grow together, yet I see not how this any way proves them innate.

The knowledge of some truths, I confess, is very early in the mind; but in a way that shows them not to be innate.

For, if we will observe, we shall find it still to be about ideas, not innate, but acquired; it being about those first which are imprinted by external things, with which infants have earliest to do, which make the most frequent impressions on their senses.

In ideas thus got, the mind discovers that some agree and others differ, probably as soon as it has any use of memory; as soon as it is able to retain and perceive distinct ideas.