The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *' „ ,. 5 ... J* - r -\ If I had any inclination to cavil, I might, with truth, affert that no fuch paffage is to be found in Mr. Locke. His words are: c In fome of our ideas c there are certain relations, habitudes, 4 and conne&ions, fo vifibly included ‘ in the nature of the ideas themfelves, c that we cannot conceive them feparable 4 from them by any power whatsoever.1 It may be anfwered, perhaps, that the violence is done rather to the expreffion, than to the meaning of this truly great man; but if I Should candidly admit that he feems, from the immediate con¬ text, to mean no lefs (I fay, feems to mean : for, whoever will carefully com¬ pare what is faid in another part of the fame book of the powers of the mind in forming the archetypes of its complex ideas of mixed modes, may poffiblythink he fees fufficient reafon for revolving what is here affirmed of arbitrary (not infinite) power, into the human mind only. I may yet reply, that fuch a vio- Locke’s EfTay, 1. 2. cap. 31, lence