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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S8
Section 609 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C33.S8
English
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I mention this, not out of any great necessity there is in this present argument to distinguish nicely between natural and acquired antipathies; but I take notice of it for another purpose, viz. that those who have children, or the charge of their education, would think it worth their while diligently to watch, and carefully to prevent the undue connexion of ideas in the minds of young people. This is the time most susceptible of lasting impressions; and though those relating to the health of the body are by discreet people minded and fenced against, yet I am apt to doubt, that those which relate more peculiarly to the mind, and terminate in the understanding or passions, have been much less heeded than the thing deserves: nay, those relating purely to the understanding, have, as I suspect, been by most men wholly overlooked.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Je ne rapporte pas cela, comme s’il étoit fort néceſſaire en cet endroit de diſtinguer exactement entre les antipathies naturelles & acquiſes : mais j’ai fait cette remarque dans une autre vuë, ſavoir, afin que ceux qui ont des Enfans, ou qui ſont chargez de leur éducation, voyent par-là que c’eſt une choſe bien digne de leurs ſoins d’obſerver avec attention & de prévenir ſoigneuſement cette irréguliére liaiſon d’Idées dans l’Eſprit des jeunes gens. C’eſt le temps le plus ſuſceptible des impreſſions durables. Et quoi que les perſonnes raiſonnables faſſent reflexion à celles qui ſe rapportent à la ſanté & au Corps pour les combattre, je ſuis pourtant fort tenté de croire, qu’il s’en faut bien qu’on ait eu autant de ſoin que la choſe le mérite, de celles qui ſe rapportent plus particuliérement à l’Ame, & qui ſe terminent à l’Entendement ou aux Paſſions : ou plûtôt, ces ſortes d’impreſſions, qui ſe rapportent purement à l’Entendement, ont été, je penſe, entiérement négligées par la plus grande partie des hommes.
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