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The Contents.
| 15, 16. | The steps by which the mind attains several truths. | |
| 17. | Assenting as soon as proposed and understood, proves them not innate. | |
| 18. | If such an assent be a mark of innate, then that one and two are equal to three; that sweetness is not bitterness; and a thousand the like, must be innate. | |
| 19. | Such less general propositions known before these universal maxims. | |
| 20. | One and one equal to two, &c. not general nor useful, answered. | |
| 21. | These maxims not being known sometimes till proposed, proves them not innate. | |
| 22. | Implicitly known before proposing, signifies that the mind is capable of understanding them, or else signifies nothing. | |
| 23. | The argument of assenting on first hearing is upon a false supposition of no precedent teaching. | |
| 24. | Not innate, because not universally assented to. | |
| 25. | These maxims not the first known. | |
| 26. | And so not innate. | |
| 27. | Not innate, because they appear least, where what is innate shows itself clearest. | |
| 28. | Recapitulation. | |
| CHAPTER III. | ||
NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES. | ||
| SECT. | ||
| 1. | No moral principles so clear and so generally received as the fore-mentioned speculative maxims. | |
| 2. | Faith and justice not owned as principles by all men. | |
| 3. | Obj. Though men deny them in their practice, yet they admit them in their thoughts, answered. | |
| 4. | Moral rules need a proof, ergo, not innate. | |
| 5. | Instance in keeping compacts. | |
| 6. | Virtue generally approved, not because innate, but because profitable. | |
| 7. | Men's actions convince us, that the rule of virtue is not their internal principle. | |
| 8. | Conscience no proof of any innate moral rule. | |
| 9. | Instances of enormities practised without remorse. | |
| 10. | Men have contrary practical principles. | |
| 11—13. | Whole nations reject several moral rules. | |
| 14. | Those who maintain innate practical principles, tell us not what they are. | |
| 15—19. | Lord Herbert's innate principles examined. | |
| 20. | Obj. Innate principles may be corrupted, answered. | |
| 21. | Contrary principles in the world. | |
| 22—26. | How men commonly come by their principles. | |
| 27. | Principles must be examined. | |
