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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Simple Modes of SpacC
thino betreen, there eero Bodies mustnecessarily touch. FOr pure Space
vetreen, is sufficient to take avar the necessiey ot mutual Contact; but
bare space in the ar, is not susticiere to stop Motion. The truth is
theseMen musteicher orn, that cher chink Body infinice, thouoh they are
locti to speakE it out, or ele affirm, chat Space iS ROE BOdY. Ter P would
fain meet ich that chinkins Man, that cam, in his Thousts, ser any
bounds to Space, more than he can to Duration; or by thinking, hove
toarriveat thie end ofeirher: And therctore il his Pdea ol liternier BC
intinico, (ois his Pdea olimmensity; ther are both Ainite or intinite alitcc.
5. 2F. Farcher, thole wrho allere the impossibilier ot space exictine wittr
out Matter, must not onty malie Body infinite bur mult also cenr a porver
in Ciod to annihitate any part OF Marter. NO OnC, L supvose, Will deny.
that Crod can per an end to all motion chat is in Macrer, and tix all the
Bodies os the Oniverse in a perlect quier and rest, and continue them (0
ad lonsas hopleases. Whoever then ill allor, that Giod can, durine
sueh a general rest, annihilare cither ehis BOOk, Or tho Body ot him chaL
reads ie, must necessarily admit the possibilier ot a Vacuum. Por ic is evi-
dent, chat thie Space that was filled by the parts of. the annihilated Body
erill still remain and be a Space Writhour Body. For the circumambiene
Bodies beins in perfect rest, arc a Wall oF Adamant, and in chat Ctate
matre ic a perfect impolsibilier for any other Body to set into chat Space.
And indeed che necellary morion ol one Particle oF Matter, into tho place
From whence anocher Partiele ot Matter is removed, is but a Consequence
trom the supposition os Plenitude; Wrhich will theretore necd lome Bet-
ter proot. chan a suxpoled matter ot fact, whieh Experiment can never
make out; our omn clear and distinet Ideas plains satistring us, chat there
isnonecellarr connexion betreen space and Solidity, Tince ve can conceive
the one rithoue the other. And those who dispure for or acainst a Vacuum
dotherebs consels, ther have dictindt Ideas oF Facuum and Plenum, l. C.
that ther have an Paea ot Fxtention void of Solidier, thouoh ther denz its
existence; or elsether dispute about noching at alI. For ther irho so much
alter the tionification oF Words, as to call Fxtension Body, and conte-
quents make the whole Essence oF Body, to be nochine but pure Fxten-
sion without Solidier, musttalk absurdIV, Wheneverthes SpeakEoFracuum
since ir isimpossible FOr FXLenSIOn FO BO WIFLIOUF RXLONTION. FOT Vacuum;
Wrhether e aftirm or deny its existence, sisrities Space without Body
tiole very existence no one can dens eo be pollible, irho ill not malie
Matrer intinice, and talse trom Cod a vorver eo annihilate ans Partiele
OF it
8. 22. But not to g0 (0 faras berond the urmost bounds of Body in the
Oniverse, nor appeal to Gods Omniporeney totind a vacuum, the motion ot
Bodies, charare in our vier and neighibourhood scemtomo plain toevinceit.
For l detire any one (o to deride a solid Body ol any dimention he pleales.
25 tomalie it possible for the Colid Parts tommove up and don freely everr
War, witliin thebounds ot that Superticies, it chero he not letrinit a void
Space, as bie as the least part into hich he has divided the laid solid Body.
And il irhrere the lealt P’article of the Body dirided, isas big as a Muctard
secd, a roid Space equal to thebulkeoF a Mustard. Scec, De requilite to matie
room for the treo motion of the Parrs of the dirided Body, wichin the
Boundsof its Superticies, Where the Particles oF Matter are 10O,000, 000
lessthan a Bustard Sced, there must allo De a space roid ot ColidMatter, 25
Big a5 200,000,000 part ot a Mustard Sced; for il ithold in onc, it Wrill hold
in ehie other, and (o on in insinirum. And let this roid Space be as licele
asit Will, ic destroysthe Hypothelis oE Plenitude. For il rhere can be a
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