4. Mixed modes and relations, made of consistent ideas, are real.
Secondly, Mixed modes and relations, having no
other reality but what they have in the minds of men, there is nothing more required to this kind of ideas to make
them real, but that they be so framed, that there be a possibility of existing conformable to them. These ideas
themselves, being archetypes, cannot differ from their archetypes, and so cannot be chimerical, unless any one
will jumble together in them inconsistent ideas. Indeed, as any of them have the names of a known language
assigned to them, by which he that has them in his mind would signify them to others, so bare possibility of
existing is not enough; they must have a conformity to the ordinary signification of the name that is given them,
that they may not be thought fantastical: as if a man would give the name of justice to that idea which common
use calls liberality. But this fantasticalness relates more to propriety of speech, than reality of ideas. For a man to
be undisturbed in danger, sedately to consider what is fittest to be done, and to execute it steadily, is a mixed
mode, or a complex idea of an action which may exist. But to be undisturbed in danger, without using one's
reason or industry, is what is also possible to be; and so is as real an idea as the other. Though the first of these,
having the name courage given to it, may, in respect of that name, be a right or wrong idea; but the other, whilst it
has not a common received name of any known language assigned to it, is not capable of any deformity, being
made with no reference to anything but itself.
