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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 81

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  2. Ole
  3. On
  4. ind
  5. ri
  6. Simple Modes of SpacC
  7. thino betreen, there eero Bodies mustnecessarily touch. FOr pure Space
  8. vetreen, is sufficient to take avar the necessiey ot mutual Contact; but
  9. bare space in the ar, is not susticiere to stop Motion. The truth is
  10. theseMen musteicher orn, that cher chink Body infinice, thouoh they are
  11. locti to speakE it out, or ele affirm, chat Space iS ROE BOdY. Ter P would
  12. fain meet ich that chinkins Man, that cam, in his Thousts, ser any
  13. bounds to Space, more than he can to Duration; or by thinking, hove
  14. toarriveat thie end ofeirher: And therctore il his Pdea ol liternier BC
  15. intinico, (ois his Pdea olimmensity; ther are both Ainite or intinite alitcc.
  16. 5. 2F. Farcher, thole wrho allere the impossibilier ot space exictine wittr
  17. out Matter, must not onty malie Body infinite bur mult also cenr a porver
  18. in Ciod to annihitate any part OF Marter. NO OnC, L supvose, Will deny.
  19. that Crod can per an end to all motion chat is in Macrer, and tix all the
  20. Bodies os the Oniverse in a perlect quier and rest, and continue them (0
  21. ad lonsas hopleases. Whoever then ill allor, that Giod can, durine
  22. sueh a general rest, annihilare cither ehis BOOk, Or tho Body ot him chaL
  23. reads ie, must necessarily admit the possibilier ot a Vacuum. Por ic is evi-
  24. dent, chat thie Space that was filled by the parts of. the annihilated Body
  25. erill still remain and be a Space Writhour Body. For the circumambiene
  26. Bodies beins in perfect rest, arc a Wall oF Adamant, and in chat Ctate
  27. matre ic a perfect impolsibilier for any other Body to set into chat Space.
  28. And indeed che necellary morion ol one Particle oF Matter, into tho place
  29. From whence anocher Partiele ot Matter is removed, is but a Consequence
  30. trom the supposition os Plenitude; Wrhich will theretore necd lome Bet-
  31. ter proot. chan a suxpoled matter ot fact, whieh Experiment can never
  32. make out; our omn clear and distinet Ideas plains satistring us, chat there
  33. isnonecellarr connexion betreen space and Solidity, Tince ve can conceive
  34. the one rithoue the other. And those who dispure for or acainst a Vacuum
  35. dotherebs consels, ther have dictindt Ideas oF Facuum and Plenum, l. C.
  36. that ther have an Paea ot Fxtention void of Solidier, thouoh ther denz its
  37. existence; or elsether dispute about noching at alI. For ther irho so much
  38. alter the tionification oF Words, as to call Fxtension Body, and conte-
  39. quents make the whole Essence oF Body, to be nochine but pure Fxten-
  40. sion without Solidier, musttalk absurdIV, Wheneverthes SpeakEoFracuum
  41. since ir isimpossible FOr FXLenSIOn FO BO WIFLIOUF RXLONTION. FOT Vacuum;
  42. Wrhether e aftirm or deny its existence, sisrities Space without Body
  43. tiole very existence no one can dens eo be pollible, irho ill not malie
  44. Matrer intinice, and talse trom Cod a vorver eo annihilate ans Partiele
  45. OF it
  46. 8. 22. But not to g0 (0 faras berond the urmost bounds of Body in the
  47. Oniverse, nor appeal to Gods Omniporeney totind a vacuum, the motion ot
  48. Bodies, charare in our vier and neighibourhood scemtomo plain toevinceit.
  49. For l detire any one (o to deride a solid Body ol any dimention he pleales.
  50. 25 tomalie it possible for the Colid Parts tommove up and don freely everr
  51. War, witliin thebounds ot that Superticies, it chero he not letrinit a void
  52. Space, as bie as the least part into hich he has divided the laid solid Body.
  53. And il irhrere the lealt P’article of the Body dirided, isas big as a Muctard
  54. secd, a roid Space equal to thebulkeoF a Mustard. Scec, De requilite to matie
  55. room for the treo motion of the Parrs of the dirided Body, wichin the
  56. Boundsof its Superticies, Where the Particles oF Matter are 10O,000, 000
  57. lessthan a Bustard Sced, there must allo De a space roid ot ColidMatter, 25
  58. Big a5 200,000,000 part ot a Mustard Sced; for il ithold in onc, it Wrill hold
  59. in ehie other, and (o on in insinirum. And let this roid Space be as licele
  60. asit Will, ic destroysthe Hypothelis oE Plenitude. For il rhere can be a
  61. SDaCC

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 81. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0097?run=74