23. Principles supposed innate because we do not remember when we began to hold them.
To which we may add,
that when men so instructed are grown up, and reflect on their own minds, they cannot find anything more ancient
there than those opinions, which were taught them before their memory began to keep a register of their actions,
or date the time when any new thing appeared to them; and therefore make no scruple to conclude, that those
propositions of whose knowledge they can find in themselves no original, were certainly the impress of God and
nature upon their minds, and not taught them by any one else. These they entertain and submit to, as many do to
their parents with veneration; not because it is natural; nor do children do it where they are not so taught; but
because, having been always so educated, and having no remembrance of the beginning of this respect, they think
it is natural.
