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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Simple Mlodes of Space.
the former as osten as re ill, ithout being erer able to come to any
Rop or Stint, letus enlarse it as much as ire will, is that ertich sives us
the idea ot Immensitr.
5. 5. There is another Modisication oF this Idea oF Space, erhich is no-
thins but the Relation oF the Parts ofthe Fermination ol Capacier, or
Extension amonsst themselves. This the Touch discovers in sen siblc. B0.
dies, Whose Fixtremities coms ithin our react; and ehe Fire Falres Both
From Bodies and Colours, irhose Boundaries are rithin its vier: Where
observing how the Extremities terminato, cither in Streight Lincs, WhicM
meet at discernible Angles; or in crooled Pines, Whierein no Angles
can De perceired, by considerins chele as thoy relate to one another, in
all Parrs ofthe Extremities of any Body or Space, it has that Idea We call
Figure, Wrhich attords to eho Mind infinire Varietr. For besides the vast
Number oF ditterent Fisures, that do realls exist in the coherent masses ot
Matter, the StocKE, thar the Mind has in its Porer, by varrins the Idea ot
Space; and thereby makrins sill neu Compolitions, by repeatins its orrn
Ideas, and joinins them as it pleases, is pertectls inexhaustiblo: And So il
ean mulciply Figures in insinitum.
6. 6. For themind, havins a Porer to repeat the Idea oF any lenotn dis
rectli Sretched out, and join it to another in the lame Direction, whichis
todouble the leneth oFthat Areishe Line; or else join it to anocher it
erhat Inclination it thintes Ar, and so male what sort ot Angle it plcales:
And Deins able allo to thorten ans Linc ic imasines, by tabins tromit  Or
Z. Or What part it pleases, withour beins able to come to an end ot anr
tuch Divisions, ic can makce an Ansle oF any bignels: So alsothe lines that
are its sides oE, W hac lensch it pleales, Whuch joinins asain to other Lines
oF different lenschs, and ac different Angles, till ic has wrholle incloled a-
ny Space, it is evident that it can mulciply Figures boch in their Shape
and Capacier, in infinitum, all Wtich are bur so mans different simple
Modes of Space.
The same thar it can do with AreigheLines, it can do also witherooled,
or crooled and Areishe together; and the lame it can do in Lines, it can al
s0 in Superticies, by Wrhich re may be led into Carcher Fhouslts ol thc
endless Varieey oF Ficures, thac the Mind has a Porrer to matce, and there-
by tomultiplr che simple Modes oF SpacC.
5. 7. Another Idea comines under thisFTcac, and belongins to this Fribe, is
that we call Place. A5 in simple Spaco, e consider the relation oF Di
stance vereen any tiro Bodies, or Points; (0 in our Idea OF PlacC, WC
conlider therelation of Diltance becvint ans chins, and anss tWO Or mOTO
Points, Wrhich are considered, as keepins the lame distance onc rith ano.
cher, and so considered as at rest; For When e find any thing at thesame
distance nor, rhich ic as Vesterdar trom ans ero or more Points,
wrtrich hare noc since changed their distance one ith another, and with
Wtiich we then compared it, e lay it hath kept the same Place: Dut il
it hath sensibly altered its distance ith cither of those Points, ve lay it
hath chansed its Place: Thouoh vulcariy spealins in the common No-
tion ot Place, We do notalrars exactlr oblerve the distance trom precile
Points; Dut larser Portions of sensible Objects, to Which we consider thie
thins placed tobear Relation, and ies distance, trom Which re have lome
Realon eo observe.
9. 6. Luc Cans ot Chels men, standins Mne ase IGuares bI
ehre Chels. Board, rrhere ve lefr them, We lay thez arc all in the same Place,
er unmored; thoust, perhaps, tho Chess. Board hath been in the mean
cime carricd ouC otonc Roon into anocher, becaule we compared chem oy