6. The effects of sensation in the womb.
But though it be reasonable to imagine that children receive some ideas
before they come into the world, yet these simple ideas are far from those innate principles which some contend
for, and we, above, have rejected. These here mentioned, being the effects of sensation, are only from some
affections of the body, which happen to them there, and so depend on something exterior to the mind; no
otherwise differing in their manner of production from other ideas derived from sense, but only in the precedency
of time. Whereas those innate principles are supposed to be quite of another nature; not coming into the mind by
any accidental alterations in, or operations on the body; but, as it were, original characters impressed upon it, in
the very first moment of its being and constitution.
