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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER II
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These five either not all, or more than all, if there are any.
First, that these five propositions are either not all, or more than all, those common notions written on our minds by the finger of God; if it were reasonable to believe any at all to be so written.

Since there are other propositions which, even by his own rules, have as just a pretence to such an original, and may be as well admitted for innate principles, as at least some of these five he enumerates, viz.

'Do as thou wouldst be done unto.' And perhaps some hundreds of others, when well considered.
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The supposed marks wanting.
Secondly, that all his marks are not to be found in each of his five propositions, viz.

his first, second, and third marks agree perfectly to neither of them; and the first, second, third, fourth, and sixth marks agree but ill to his third, fourth, and fifth propositions.


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