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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.
stance; or Whether they ill chinke the Nords oF che most knowino
Kins Solomon, Jhe Tleaven, and the Tleaven of FTeavens, cannot contain Thee;
Ox thole more empharical ones of the inspired Philosopher Sc. Paul, In FTim
ne live, move, and have our Beinz: are tobe understood in a literal sense
Tleare every one to consider; orily our Idea ot Space is, I think, luch as
Thave mentioned, and distinct from FhaE OF BodV. For Wrhether e consider
in matter it CelE the diltance of its coherent solid pares, and call it, in re-
spect otthose solid parts, Fatension; or Wrhether considerins it, as lring
betrreen the extremities ot anr Body in its several dimentions, we call it
Length, Breadch, and Thictness; or else considerins it as lyiris betreen
ans erro Bodies, or polutire Beinss, rithout ans consideration, Whether
there De ars Macter or no betreen, e call it Distance. Florrever rg-
med or considered, it is alivars the lame unitorm simple Idea et spase,
rakcen from Objects, about which our Senseshare been conversant, Whera
ot travins setled Tdeas in our Minds, ve ean revire, repeat, and addthem
one toanother asolten as re will; and consiler the Space or Distance (0
imagined, cither as filled rith solid parts, (0 that another BocY cannot
come there, withour displacins and chrusting out the Body thatWr asthere
betore; or else as void ot Solidier, (0 thar a Bocy oF equal dlimensions eO
that empey or pure space, may be placed in it withour che removins or
expulsion of any thins chat as there.
5. 27. The lnowins precisels wrhat our Words Stand For, rould, lima-
ginc, inthis, as ell as a great many orher cales, quichls end the dispute.
ForTam aptto chink, thatMen, When cher cometo examine them, sind
their simple Ideas all generally to aeree, thioush in discourle with one a-
nother, thes perhaps consound one anocher ich different Names.
imaxine, chat Men irtio abstraet cheir Thouches, and do vell examine the
Ideas of their own Minds, cannot much differ in thintins; horvever, they
mar perplex themselres rithords, accordins to the way ot speatins ot
the sereral Schools, or Sects ther hare been bred up in: Though amonest
unthintsins Men, Who examine not scrupuloussr and caretully their orn
Ideas, and Rrip them not trom the martrs Nen ule for them, but con
Found them ith mords, there must be endlels dispute, vrrangline, and
jarson; especially if ther be learned boohim Men, derored to lome Sect,
and accustomed to the Languase oF ic; and have learned totalk atter
Others. But iF it sould happen, chat any rro chinkins Men Mould realtr
have different Ideas, cifferent Norions, ldo nor sec hor ther could dis-
course, or argue one ithanother. IPere Imult not bemiltaken, to chintc
that every Roatins Imacination in Mens Brains, is presentlr ot thac sort
OE Ideas I speak ot. Tis not calie for theMind to put oA thole contused
Nocions and Prejudices it has imbibed trom Custom, Inadverteney, and
common Conversation: it requires pains and altiduits to examine its
Ideas, tillit resolves them into those clear and distinet simple ones, out ot
Which ches are compounded; andro sec whieh, amonsties simple ones,
hare or hare notanccelsars connexion and dependence onc upon another:
Till a Man dochehis in the primarr and original Notions ot Thinos, he
builds upon Aoatins anduncereain Principles, and will osten sind himsetF ac
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