Not on Mind naturally imprinted, because not known to Children, Idiots, &c.
For, first, it is evident, that all children and idiots have not the least apprehension or thought of them.

And the want of that is enough to destroy that universal assent which must needs be the necessary concomitant of all innate truths: it seeming to me near a contradiction to say, that there are truths imprinted on the soul, which it perceives or understands not: imprinting, if it signify anything, being nothing else but the making certain truths to be perceived.

For to imprint anything on the mind without the mind's perceiving it, seems to me hardly intelligible.

If therefore children and idiots have souls, have minds, with those impressions upon them, THEY must unavoidably perceive them, and necessarily know and assent to these truths; which since they do not, it is evident that there are no such impressions.

For if they are not notions naturally imprinted, how can they be innate?
and if they are notions imprinted, how can they be unknown?
To say a notion is imprinted on the mind, and yet at the same time to say, that the mind is ignorant of it, and never yet took notice of it, is to make this impression nothing.