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127 Does he not allow that we have _meaning_, if not _ideas_, when we use the terms virtue and vice and moral action?
128 As Locke says we are.
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129 "_Existence_ and _unity_ are ideas that are suggested to the understanding by every object without and every idea within. When ideas are in our minds, we consider that _they_ exist." Locke's _Essay_, Bk. II. ch. 7. sect. 7.
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130 i.e. of Existence in the abstract-unperceived and unperceiving-realised neither in percipient life nor in moral action.
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131 This suggests that G.o.d knows sensible things without being sentient of any.
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132 Cf. _Principles_, Introd., sect. 1-5.
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133 Cf. Preface to _Principles_; also to _Dialogues_.
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134 i.e. that ethics was a science of phenomena or ideas.
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135 i.e. of the _independent_ existence of Matter.
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136 'bodies'-i.e. sensible things-not unrealised Matter.
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137 Cf. _Principles_, Introduction, sect. 13.
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138 Locke died in October, 1704.
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139 "without the mind," i.e. abstracted from all active percipient life.
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140 e.g. secondary qualities of sensible things, in which pleasure and pain are prominent.
141 e.g. primary qualities, in which pleasure and pain are latent.
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142 See Locke's _Essay_, Bk. II. ch. 13. -- 21, ch. 17. -- 4; also Bk. IV.
ch. 3. -- 6; also his controversy with Bishop Stillingfleet regarding the possibility of Matter thinking. With Berkeley real s.p.a.ce is a finite creature, dependent for realisation on living percipient Spirit.
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143 But what of the origination of the volition itself?
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_ 144 Essay_, Bk. I. ch. iv. -- 18. See also Locke's _Letters_ to Stillingfleet.
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145 It is, according to Berkeley, the steady union or co-existence of a group of sense-phenomena.
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_ 146 Essay_, Bk. II. ch. i. -- 10-where he argues for interruptions of consciousness. "Men think not always."
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