An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 93

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6. Chap. V. Ouo an Lxpansion consideredtos et he
7. Fischly, Bybeins able torepeatany such Ldea oF any lensth oF Time
8. as oFa Minute, 2 Y. Car, Or ari AGC, as otren as rerill in ouromn Thouxhts.
9. aud add eliem one to anoclier, without ever comine to the end ot fuch
10. addition, any nearer than me can to thie end ot Number, to which ne can
11. alrays add, we come by the idea ot Piternity, as the future eternal Dura:
12. tion oF our SoulS, as well as the Eterniey oF thac intinite Beine, Whieh
13. must necellarily hare alvassexilted.
14. Sixchly, By considerins any pare ol intinire Duration, as let out by
15. periodical Mealures, We comeby the Idea, ot What We call Time in se.
16. neral.
17. Cl LL L. LV
18. Of Duractor an fixpansion, considered torether.
19. Elous. Wre hare in the precedent Chapters develt prety lons on
20. the Considerations of Space and Duration; Yet ther beins Ideas
21. ot general eMccment, at have lomethins verr obstrule and peculiar in
22. tlcir Naclre, che comparins eilem one rith anocher may, perhaps, be ol ule
23. for chelt ultration; and We has have the more elear and distinet con-
24. ceptien ofthem, by takcins a vtelr ol them togetlier. Diltanco, or Space,
25. in its limple abstract conception, to avoid contusion, I call Fxpansion, 10
26. distins c ic trom Fxtension, Which by some is used eo express ehis di
27. stance onty as it is in tnc feld parts ot Marrer, and so includes, orat least
28. intimates the Idea oF Body: Whereas the Idea of pure Dictance includes
29. no such chins. Ipreterr also the Word Fxpansion ro Space, becaulé Space
30. is olten applied to Distance oF Reeting successive Parts, irhich never exist
31. tosether, as Well as to those which are permanent. In boththele (viz.)
32. Expansion and Duration, the Mind has this common. Idea ot continued
33. Lenschs, capable ot greater, er less quantities: For a Man has as clear an
34. Idea oFthe difference ofthe lensth of an FTour, and a Day, as oF an Inch
35. and a FoOt.
36. 5. 2. The Mind, havins Got the Ideq OF tho lengtH OF anY Part OF PX-
37. panson, let ir bea Span, or a Pace, or What lensth von Will, can a5 has
38. beenlaid, repeat thar Ldea; and so addins it tothe formen, enlarge irs Idea of
39. Lengrh, and make ic equal io wo spans, or two Paces, and (o asotten, aS IE
40. Will, till it equals the distance ofany parts of the Farth one trom another,
41. and increasethus, tillit amounesto tlie distance ot the Sun, or remorest Star.
42. By sucha progression asthis, settins out trom the placeprhereit is, or ans
43. other place, it can procced and pass berond all those, lensths, end find
44. nochirs ro Ropits soins on, cicher in or withour Body. Pis true, ve
45. can calily in our Thouglus come ro tho end, ot salid fxtention; the ex-
46. tremiey and bounds oF all. Body, re have no difticultr to arrive at: BuE
47. when the Mindis there, ic tinds nothins ro hinder its progrels into this
48. endless Expansion; ot chat it can neirher tind noy conceire anr end. Nor
49. let any ore Cay, Thac. bey ond the bounds oE Body. thereis nothins at all,
50. unlesshie ill contine FOD Withinthe limirs oFMatter. Solomon, Whole
51. Onderstandins as tilled and enlars ed with Wisdom, leems to hare ochex
52. Thouohs, hen helays, Jear en, and the Fear en of lJeavens, cannot contain
53. Thec: And he, Ichinls, vers much magnities to himsels the Capacits ot
54. his oma Incerstandins, ulo persuaces suimselt, chac he can exrend tis
55. Thonsts
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 93. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0109?run=74