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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Chap. XXlII. Our Ideas ot Substances.
imaxine, that his Soul can chints, or more a Body ac Oxford, Whilt hei
at London; and cannot but Know, that beins united to his Body, it con
Aantly changes place all the irhole journer, betrreen Oxford and London-
asthe Coachu Or FTorse, does that carries him; and I chinki, mas be said
tobe cruly all that wrhile in motion: Or if that will not be allowed to
aftordus a elear Idea enoush oF is morion, its beins separated From the
Body in death, Ithinl, Will: For to consider it, tog0 out ot the Body
or leare il, and yet i0 have no Ldea ot iis morion, teeis to me impos
sible.
5. 2F. IE ic be Caid b7 any one, chat il cannor chanse place, hecaute il
hath nonc, for Spirits are not in Loco, but 2bi; I suppole chat waz oFtal
kins, will nocnon beot much veistu iomans, in an ABC chat is nOL
much disposedto admire, or sutter chemselres io be deccired, by such un-
incellisible ays of speakins. Bur il any one chintis chere is ans sense in
thac dictinction, and applicableto our prelent purpole, l delue hm to pu
it into intellisible Enslistr; and then trom thence draw a realon to Ben.
thac Spiritsarenoc capable ot Mocion. Indeedu Mocion cannot De aUxi.
bucedto GOD, noc becaule heis a Spirit, but because fcis an Iytunite
Spirit.
5. 22. Let us compare then our complex Idea oP Spirit, With our com-
plex Paca of Body, and see Whether there be any more obscuritr in one,
than in ehe ocher, and in which most. Dur Idea otBods, 25 I chinls, id
in extended solid Substance, capable ot communicarins potion by im
pulle: And our Idea oF our Souls, is oF a Substance thar phinES, and has a
pover ol excitins Morion in BodY, bY Will, or Phoustu. Theso, Ichink
areour complex Ideas of Soul and Body, as contradistinguished: and no let
us examine which has most obscurier in ic, and difticultr to be apprehen-
ded. Ilnon that People, Whose Thouslus are immersed in Matter, and
hare so subieered their Minds totheir Senses, that ther seldom reftect on
anx thins bezondthem, are apt to lay, thes cannor comprehend a thin-
bins thins, erhich, perhaps, is. true: ButI afturm, When they consider it
ell, they con nomore comprehend an extended thing.
8. 23. Frany ove says, helenors noc ihat tisthints in him; he means,
helnoms not Whatthe substance is o chat chinkins chins: Nomore, lay
I. Knors he whiat the substance is of that solid thing. Farther, ilhe lays
he lnoms not hou hechintes; Pansver, Neither Lnonshe hor he is ex-
tended; hou the solid parts ot Body are united, or cohere togethex to
malie Excension. For chouohthe precture olche Partieles ot Air, may ac
coune tor the cohesion of. several parts of Matter, thar are srosler thanehc
Partieles oF Air, and have Pores less thanthe Corpuseles of Nir; vet che
reishe, or pressure, ot the Air, will not explain, nor can be a cause
Ofthe coherence ot tho Particles ot Airthemselres. And il ine prelture
ot the Acher, or any subciler Macier than ihe Ai, mas unite, and hold
Fast together, thepares of a Particle oF Air, as Wrell as ocher Bodies; yct
it cannor mate Bonds for ic selt, andhold rosether the paris that make
uxeverr rhe least corpusele of chat materia subtilis. S0 that that Hypo.
chelis, hor ingenioully soever explained, by Bemins, thac the pares ot
sensible Bodies are heldrogether, by the precture ot ocher external insen-
sible Bodies, reaches not the parrs of the sthex it (ClF; and by hor much
che more evident it prores, that che parts oF other Bodies are held toge-
cher, brthe external pressure of the Ather; and can have no other con-
ceivatole cause of their cohesion and union, by s0 much the more it leares
us in che dark concernins che cohelion of che parts ofthe Corpuseles ol the
her it selt: Wtrich re can neicher conceive wictout pares, ches beine
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