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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 94

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  1. Duration and Fixpansion considered together. B00kII.
  2. ThougHIS Carthex EHan GOD exists, or imagine any Expansion Where
  3. Re IS NOL.
  4. 5. 3. Sust Poisie in Duration. The Mind bavine eot the Idea of any
  5. lenoth of Duration, can double, multiply, and entarre it, nor onls berond
  6. its OIn, Due berond tho existence os all corporeal Beings, and all the
  7. measures of Time, taken from the great Bodies OF the Norld, and cheir
  8. Motions. But yet erery one casily admits, That though ve matie Dura-
  9. tion boundless, as certainty it is, ve cannot ret extend it berond all Beins.
  10. GOD, everr one easilY allows, Ells Ecernitr; and tis hard eo Aind a Rea-
  11. Ion, Wur anr one Mould doube, that he lilerile Alls Iminenlity: IVis
  12. infinite Beins is certainlr asboundless one ray as another; and methints
  13. it alcribes a little t0o much to Marter, 10 Cay, Where there 15 no B0dY,
  14. there is nothine.
  15. 5. 4. FTence, Ithinlc, ve may learn the Realon, uhy every one famili.
  16. arly, and without chelcast helitarion, speales ot, and suppoles Fterniey.
  17. and sicks not to ascribe Infiniey zo Durarion; butis with more doubiine
  18. and relerre, that mans admit, or suppole the Insinity of Space. Therea.
  19. Con whereosseems to me tobethis, That Duration and fixtention beine
  20. uled as natmes ot affections belonging to other Beings, We casily conceire
  21. in GOD intinite Duration, ane We cannot avoid doins (0; DuF nOL AF-
  22. tributite to him excention, bur only to Matrer, Whuch is tinite, e arc
  23. apter ES dOuDE OF The existence OF LxPansion WitHONEMatrOr; OF Wrhich
  24. alone re commonti suppose ic an Aetribure: Atd cherelore wten NeH
  25. pursue their Thouotes ot Spaco, thes are aBF to AoD at ttre contines ot
  26. BodY, as il Spaceere chere ar an end t00, and reactiedno Carther: Or il
  27. their Pdeas upon consideration carry themtarther, yet they term whar is
  28. berond ehe limies oF che Vniverse, imagitari Space; ad it ie ivere no-
  29. thin Because chere isno Body existins in it. Whereas Duration, anrece.
  30. dene ed aIIBody, and the motions ic is mealured by, thez never term
  31. imaxinar, because ir is nerer suppoled void of Tome other real existence.
  32. And il elie nates OP thitos may at aII direct our Thoustus corards ce
  33. OrioinaIS oF MerS Ideas, (a5 P ar apt to thinte they may very much,
  34. oncarhave sccasion to thinte By the naime Duration, Ehat the conci-
  35. huation of FXistence; With a lind or Resisteneo to any destructive FOrco,
  36. and the continuation of Solidier, Cirhich is apt to be contounded witti,
  37. and ilere Will lool into the minure atomical parts of Macrer, is little dit-
  38. Ferene rom Lardness,) ivere thoughe to have some Analosy, arid gave oc
  39. calion ioW ords, Ponear oF hin as Durare and Durum esse. But De chat
  40. as ieWili, this is certain, That wtioever pursaes his on Thouehes, vill
  41. Aind EHem sometimes lanch out besond the extent ot Body, into chie In
  42. finitr ot Space or Expansion; tlie Idea Whereor is diltinet an separate
  43. From Body, and all ocher thinos rhick mar (eothose irho please) bea
  44. lubjea os Parther meditation. CHC. DC elsiCI BFLC B9
  45. 5.5.Time in general is to Duration, a5 Place to Fxpansion. They
  46. are o onuch ot ehose boundless, Occars DFFrernity and Immensi
  47. E33 a5 15 set oue and distinguistied from the rest, as iC WerCBY Land
  48. marbss and so are made hse of, to denore the Postion ol sinite rest
  49. Beinos, in respect one eo’anoetier, in those unitorm infinité Oceans ot
  50. Durarion and Space.Thele richeli Consdered, are nochine but Ideas ot
  51. deceervinate Diltanees, trom cerrain Rnoti points fixed in dictinsuittrable
  52. sensible chines, ande suppoled to héep che lae distance one trom ano
  53. cher: V Fxom SucH Doints Axed in tensible Beings We recton, and From
  54. theni v measure sue Portions DE those infinite Onantities, Whien B0
  55. consicered, are châc erhich We cal Fiimc anc PlaCC. For Durarion and
  56. Space

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 94. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0110?run=74