An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1

BOOK I

NEITHER PRINCIPLES NOR IDEAS ARE INNATE

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

1. An Inquiry into the Understanding pleasant and useful.

Since it is the UNDERSTANDING that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire...