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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Simple Alodes of Space.
BOOB
Wrhen the Soul is called Substance; and Fora third, When a Bodr is called
(0. IFthe name Substance, Cands for three several distinct Ideas, they
Would do ell to makce knomn those distinct Pdeas, or ar leastto givechrée
distinct names to them, to prevent in Co important a Norion, the Conti-
Tion and Frrors, that rill naturally follo trom the promiscuous uie ot
Co doubetul a term; rhich is so tar trom beino suspected co have chree di-
Sinct, thac it has scarce one clear distinct signification: And if they Can
thus malse three distinet Ldeas oF Substance, ertrat hinders irtry another
mar notmake a Fourth:
5. 29. They who cirst ran into the Norion Ot Accidenis, 25 a TOFE OF
real Beinos, that necded omethins to inhere in, Were Forced EO And out
the word Substance, to support them. FTad the poor Indian Philosopher
(rho imasined chat the Parth also wanted lomething to bear it up) buF
thouohe ot ehis ord substance, he necded not to have been at the trouble
Eo Endan Flephant eo support ir, and a Forroise to suppore his Flephant:
The word substance rould have done it efectualIY. And he that en-
quired, miohe have talien it for 25 r00d an Ansiver trom an Indian Philo.
Copher, That Substance, withour bnowino whac it is, is thac Which sup.
Portsthe Farth, as etalse it for a sufficient Ansiver, and good Doctrine,
trom our Furopean Philosophers, That Substance without bnowine Wrhat
it is, is that irtrich supPOrES Accidents. Sochat ot Substance, we haveno
Idea of wrhat it is, bur only a contused obscure one of wtrat ic docs.
5. 20. Whaterer a learned Nan maz do here, an intelligent American
rtio enquired into the Nature of Fhinos, ould scarce tate ic For a Catis-
Foctorr ACcounE, is desiring to learn our Architecture, he Mould Be told,
That a Pillar Was a chino suxported by a Basis, and a Basis Cormethino that
supported a Pillar. Would he noc chinke himselt moched, instead ot
taught, ich such an accoune as this: And a Stranger to them vould be
very liberally instructod inthe nature of B0OlS, and the things ther con-
taincd, if he Tould be told, that all learned Bools consisted ot Paper and
Fecters, and that Letters ivere things inherine in Paper, and l’aper a
thing that held Forth L etrers; a notable vaz of havine clear Ideas ot
LCtTerS and Paper. But vere the Latin Words Tnhaerentia and Substanria,
put into the plain Fnslithrones that ansirer them, and ere called Stickine-
on and Onder- proppine, they ould better discover to us the very great
clearness there is in the Doctrine ot Substance and accidents, and ther oF
Wrhatuse thez are in decidins ot Ouections in Philosophr.
S. 2F. BUF tO return to our Ideas oF Space. TF Body BenOE Suppolec in-
Anite, which, Tthinte, no one will astirm, I rould aste, Whether it God
placed a Man at thie extremier ot corporeal Beings, he could noc srerek
tis FTand berond his Body: TFhe Could, then he vould Dur his Arm,
erhrere there as betore space ithout Body; and it there he spread his
Finsers, there would Aill Be space betreen them Without Body: IF he
could not streteh out his ITand, it ust be because ot forie external hin-
drances (for re suppose hum alire, rith such a porver ol movine the
Pares oFhis Body, that he hach no, erhrich is noc in it sele impossible, il
Cod To plealed tohave it;) or at least it is notrimpottible tor Giod (0 1o
move him: And then Iaste, Whether that ihich hinders his Iland trom
movins outrards, De Substance or Accident, Somethine or Nothine:
And wrtien ther have resolved that, ther will De able eo relolve them
Selres, rhat that is, erhrich is or mar be betveen trvo Bodies at a distance,
thac is not Body, has no solidier. In the meantime, the Aroument is at
least as Cood, That Wrhere nothing hinders, (as berond the utmost bounds
OtallBOdies,) a Body pur into motion mas more on, as where chere is nO.
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