12. For the originals of our mixed modes, we look no further than the mind; which also shows them to he the
workmanship of the understanding.
Conformable also to what has been said concerning the essences of the
species of mixed modes, that they are the creatures of the understanding rather than the works of nature;
conformable, I say, to this, we find that their names lead our thoughts to the mind, and no further. When we speak
of justice, or gratitude, we frame to ourselves no imagination of anything existing, which we would conceive; but
our thoughts terminate in the abstract ideas of those virtues, and look not further; as they do when we speak of a
horse, or iron, whose specific ideas we consider not as barely in the mind, but as in things themselves, which
afford the original patterns of those ideas. But in mixed modes, at least the most considerable parts of them, which
are moral beings, we consider the original patterns as being in the mind, and to those we refer for the
distinguishing of particular beings under names. And hence I think it is that these essences of the species of mixed
modes are by a more particular name called notions; as, by a peculiar right, appertaining to the understanding.
