10. Ideas of God and idea of fire.
The name of God being once mentioned in any part of the world, to express a
superior, powerful, wise, invisible Being, the suitableness of such a notion to the principles of common reason,
and the interest men will always have to mention it often, must necessarily spread it far and wide; and continue it
down to all generations: though yet the general reception of this name, and some imperfect and unsteady notions
conveyed thereby to the unthinking part of mankind, prove not the idea to be innate; but only that they who made
the discovery had made a right use of their reason, thought maturely of the causes of things, and traced them to
their original; from whom other less considering people having once received so important a notion, it could not
easily be lost again.
