Note 3 — &c. &c. &c.

Of the supposed operations of these Ideas, and the purposes to which they are subjected, a few, among abundant instances, are selected from Mr. Locke's Essay. "Some Ideas forwardly offer themselves to all men's understanding; some sorts of truths result from any Ideas, as soon as the mind puts them into propositions: other Truths require a train of Ideas placed in order."—Vol. I. p. 63.

"When the understanding is once stored with these simple Ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex Ideas."—Vol. I. p. 81.

"The next operation we may observe in the mind about its Ideas, is Composition, whereby it puts together several of those simple ones it has received from sensation and reflection, and combines them into complex ones."—Vol. I. p. 118.

"If either by any sudden very strong impression, or long fixing his fancy upon one sort of thoughts, incoherent Ideas have been cemented together so powerfully, as to remain united."—Vol. I. p. 121.

"But there are degree of Madness as of folly, the disorderly jumbling Ideas together, in some more, and some less." Vol. I. p. 122.

"The acts of the mind wherein it exerts its power over its simple Ideas, are chiefly three. 1st. Combining several simple Ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex Ideas are made. The second, is bringing two Ideas, whether simple or complex together, and setting them by one another, so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one; by which way it gets all its Ideas of relations. The third, is separating them from all other Ideas that accompany them in their real existence; this is called Abstraction."—Vol. I. p. 124.