or resentment of injuries, or the passion between the sexes is
not innate?

But admitting these terms, _impressions_ and _ideas_, in the
sense above explained, and understanding by _innate_, what is
original or copied from no precedent perception, then may we
assert that all our impressions are innate, and our ideas
not innate.

To be ingenuous, I must own it to be my opinion, that LOCKE was
betrayed into this question by the schoolmen, who, making use
of undefined terms, draw out their disputes to a tedious
length, without ever touching the point in question. A like
ambiguity and circumlocution seem to run through that
philosopher's reasonings on this as well as most other
subjects.



SECTION III.

OF THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.


18. It is evident that there is a principle of connexion between the
different thoughts or ideas of the mind, and that, in their appearance
to the memory or imagination, they introduce each other with a certain
degree of method and regularity. In our more serious thinking or
discourse this is so observable that any particular thought, which
breaks in upon the regular tract or chain of ideas, is immediately