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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S22
Section 111 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C1.S22
English
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Follow a child from its birth, and observe the alterations that time makes, and you shall find, as the mind by the senses comes more and more to be furnished with ideas, it comes to be more and more awake; thinks more, the more it has matter to think on. After some time it begins to know the objects which, being most familiar with it, have made lasting impressions. Thus it comes by degrees to know the persons it daily converses with, and distinguishes them from strangers; which are instances and effects of its coming to retain and distinguish the ideas the senses convey to it. And so we may observe how the mind, BY DEGREES, improves in these; and ADVANCES to the exercise of those other faculties of enlarging, compounding, and abstracting its ideas, and of reasoning about them, and reflecting upon all these; of which I shall have occasion to speak more hereafter.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Suivez un Enfant depuis ſa naiſſance, obſervez les changemens que le temps produit en lui, & vous trouverez que l’Ame venant à ſe fournir de plus en plus d’idées par le moyen des Sens, ſe reveille, pour ainſi dire, de plus en plus, & penſe davantage à meſure qu’elle a plus de matiére pour penſer. Quelque temps après, elle commence à connoître les objets qui ont fait ſur elle de fortes impreſſions à meſure qu’elle eſt plus familiariſée avec eux. C’eſt ainſi qu’un Enfant vient, par dégrez, à connoître les perſonnes avec qui il eſt tous les jours, & à les diſtinguer d’avec les Etrangers, ce qui montre en effet, qu’il commence à retenir & à diſtinguer les idées qui lui viennent par les Sens. Nous pouvons voir par même moyen comment l’Ame ſe perfectionne par dégrez de ce côté-là, auſſi bien que dans l’exercice des autres Facultez qu’elle a d’étendre ſes idées, de les compoſer, d’en former des abſtractions, de raiſonner & de reflechir ſur toutes ſes idées, de quoi j’aurai occaſion de parler plus particulierement dans la ſuite de ce Livre.
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