44. Instances of mixed modes named kinneah and niouph.
Let us suppose Adam, in the state of a grown man, with
a good understanding, but in a strange country, with all things new and unknown about him; and no other faculties
to attain the knowledge of them but what one of this age has now. He observes Lamech more melancholy than
usual, and imagines it to be from a suspicion he has of his wife Adah, (whom he most ardently loved) that she had
too much kindness for another man. Adam discourses these his thoughts to Eve, and desires her to take care that
Adah commit not folly: and in these discourses with Eve he makes use of these two new words kinneah and
niouph. In time, Adam's mistake appears, for he finds Lamech's trouble proceeded from having killed a man: but
yet the two names kinneah and niouph, (the one standing for suspicion in a husband of his wife's disloyalty to
him; and the other for the act of committing disloyalty), lost not their distinct significations. It is plain then, that
here were two distinct complex ideas of mixed modes, with names to them, two distinct species of actions
essentially different; I ask wherein consisted the essences of these two distinct species of actions? And it is plain it
consisted in a precise combination of simple ideas, different in one from the other. I ask, whether the complex
idea in Adam's mind, which he called kinneah, were adequate or not? And it is plain it was; for it being a
combination of simple ideas, which he, without any regard to any archetype, without respect to anything as a
pattern, voluntarily put together, abstracted, and gave the name kinneah to, to express in short to others, by that
one sound, all the simple ideas contained and united in that complex one; it must necessarily follow that it was an
adequate idea. His own choice having made that combination, it had all in it he intended it should, and so could
not but be perfect, could not but be adequate; it being referred to no other archetype which it was supposed to
represent.
