11. And if there were, this would prove them not innate.
Those who will take the pains to reflect with a little
attention on the operations of the understanding, will find that this ready assent of the mind to some truths,
depends not, either on native inscription, or the use of reason, but on a faculty of the mind quite distinct from both
of them, as we shall see hereafter. Reason, therefore, having nothing to do in procuring our assent to these
maxims, if by saying, that "men know and assent to them, when they come to the use of reason," be meant, that
the use of reason assists us in the knowledge of these maxims, it is utterly false; and were it true, would prove
them not to be innate.