8. Mixed modes, where they exist.
Though I shall have occasion to consider this more at large when I come to
treat of Words and their use, yet I could not avoid to take this much notice here of the names of mixed modes;
which being fleeting and transient combinations of simple ideas, which have but a short existence anywhere but in
the minds of men, and there too have no longer any existence than whilst they are thought on, have not so much
anywhere the appearance of a constant and lasting existence as in their names: which are therefore, in this sort of
ideas, very apt to be taken for the ideas themselves. For, if we should inquire where the idea of a triumph or
apotheosis exists, it is evident they could neither of them exist altogether anywhere in the things themselves,
being actions that required time to their performance, and so could never all exist together; and as to the minds of
men, where the ideas of these actions are supposed to be lodged, they have there too a very uncertain existence:
and therefore we are apt to annex them to the names that excite them in us.