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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER II
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And upon that ground they must necessarily reject all principles of virtue, who cannot put MORALITY and MECHANISM together, which are not very easy to be reconciled or made consistent.
15.

Lord Herbert's innate Principles examined.
When I had written this, being informed that my Lord Herbert had, in his book De Veritate, assigned these innate principles, I presently consulted him, hoping to find in a man of so great parts, something that might satisfy me in this point, and put an end to my inquiry.

In his chapter De Instinctu Naturali, I met with these six marks of his Notitice Communes:--1.

Prioritas.2.Independentia.3.Universalitas.

4.
Certitudo.5.Necessitas, i.e.as he explains it, faciunt ad hominis conservationem.6.Modus conformationis, i.e.Assensus nulla interposita mora.


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