7. Which ideas appear first, is not evident, nor important.
As there are some ideas which we may reasonably
suppose may be introduced into the minds of children in the womb, subservient to the necessities of their life and
being there: so, after they are born, those ideas are the earliest imprinted which happen to be the sensible qualities
which first occur to them; amongst which light is not the least considerable, nor of the weakest efficacy. And how
covetous the mind is to be furnished with all such ideas as have no pain accompanying them, may be a little
guessed by what is observable in children new-born; who always turn their eyes to that part from whence the light
comes, lay them how you please. But the ideas that are most familiar at first, being various according to the divers
circumstances of children's first entertainment in the world, the order wherein the several ideas come at first into
the mind is very various, and uncertain also; neither is it much material to know it.
