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# Title: Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 52)
# Folio 166, page id 797331344:0178
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166
Of the Principles ParE I
exclusire ot alI Bodr. ThisI mult con-
Fels, is abore my Capacur, as bcine a
most Absract Idca. When I exCItC a
Mocion in lomc part ot my Bodr, il ic
DC Frec or Wichout RelistancC, I Pay there
is Space: Buc il I And a Resiltance, chen
lCay chere is Body: and in proporcionas
che Rchiltanccto Mocionislesler Or great-
ex, l lar the Space is more or lels Pure.
S0 chat When l Epcak OF DurC Or emper
Space, ic is noc to be suppoled, chat thc
Word space Ctands For an Idea distinct
trom, or conceirable without Bodr
and Mocion. Tho indccd, WC arC aPE
tochink, cvery NToun Substancire Rands
For a diltinet Idca, thac mar bc scparat-
ed trom all Others: Which AaS OCCAH
on d intinite Mistakes. When cherctoro
suppolins all the Woctd eo bc Annihi-
lored Belides my ovn Bodr, ICay chero
Aill remains Pure Space: Thereby no-
thing elle is meant, buc ontr chaticon-
cerre it polsible, tor the Limbs ot my
Bodr eo be mor d on allsides, withoue
che least ReSiltancc: But iF chac tOO WerC
Annihilaced, chen chere cond be na
Mocion, and consegnens nO SPaCC.
Somc.