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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Mallereat oF in FhC neXF Chapter.
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) Solidity.
5. F. 
FTE Idea OF Solidity, e receire by our Fouch; and it ariles
trom theResistance we find in Body, to theentrance oF any o.
cher Body into the Place it possesses, till it has lete it. Therc is no Idea
Wrhich ve receiremore constanty from Senlation, than. Soliditr. Whe-
elier e more, or rest, in Wrhat Pocture loerer we arc, tre alvarsfcel lome-
thins under us, that suppors us, and hinders our farther sinkrins dorrn.
ards; and the Bodies re daily handle, makre us perceire chac rhilst
ther remain becrcen them, ther do by an insurmountable Force, hinder
the axproach of the parts ot our Flands thar press them. That erhich
thus hinders the approachi of trro Bodies, wrtien ther are morino one co-
wardsanorher, PCall Solidity. L Will noc dispute, Whether this accepta-
tion ofthe WVord solid be nearer to its Orisinal Signitication, chan Fhat
erhrich Mathematicians usc it in: I fustices, chac I chinse, the common
Norion oF Solidity will alloir, il noc justitie, chis ule of it; but il any one
thintc it better to call. it Impenetrability, he has my Consent. Only I
hrare choust che Term Solidiry, the more prover to exprels this Ideas
not orls because olits vulgar ule in that sense; but also, because it car.
ries Comethins more of politire in it, than impenetrability, Which is nega-
tire; andis, perhaps, more a consequence ot solidicy, than Solidiey it
SelE. Fhis oFall other, seems the Ldea most intimately connected with,
arid essential to Body, (o as no irhere else to be found or imasin d, DuE
onr in matter; Wrhich thouch our Senles takenonotice ot, but in masses
OFmatter ota buIk, sufficient to cause a Sensation in us: V et theMind;
havirs once gotthis Idea trom luch grossersensible Bodies, traces it Farther
and considers it as evell as Figure, in theminutest P’article ot matter, that
con exist, and fnds it inseparabls inherent in Body, Where erer, orhorre.
ver moditied.
5. 2. THIS IS EIIC Laed DCNO WBOdY, erherehy We conceire it +0 fll
space. The Idea oF which fillins oF space, is, Fhat erhere e imagine any
space cakten up by a solid Substance, ire coriceire it (0 to Posels it, that it
excludes al ottier solid Substances; and, will For ever hinder atiy twoo.
cher Bodies, thatmore torards one another in a strait Linc, trom comine
totouch onc anoctier, unless it remore trom betrrcen them in a Line,
noc parallel ro thatches move in. This Idea oE it, che Bodies Wve ordi
narily handle sufficiently Furnisti us ith.
8. 3. This Reliltance, Wrhereby it kecps other Bodies out of the space
IE pOsseTTCS, IS (O GrCAE, THaE nO TOrCC, HO GreAE IOCVer, CAM LUROUNE IE.
AIIthe Bodies inthe Worid, prestins a drop of Water on aIl sides, vill
never De ableto overcome ehe Relultance it vill matce, as Tott a5 It i5,
totheir approachins onc anocher, till it be remored out ot their waz:
Wrhereby our ldeaof Solidity is distineui shed Boch from pure space, Whien
is capable neither OF Resictance nor Morion, and the ordinary Idea OE
harduess. FOF a Man may Conccire iro BOdies aE a dillance, (0 as 1hc
May