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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 97

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  1. Ctrap. XV. Durcaion and Lxpansion considered tog ebtser
  2. erhence re talce the measure of the other, may be interrupted anid sepe-
  3. rated; as the one is olten by Rest, and the other is by Sleex, wtich iro
  4. CalLrest FDO.
  5. 5. TF. But vet chere is this manifest ditterenee between them, That the
  6. Ideas of Lensch, we hare oE Fxpansion, are turne d every way, and Pomake
  7. Ficure, and Breadth, and Ttricknels; Dut Duration is butas it vere the
  8. leneth of one streisht Line, extended in insinitum, not capable oF Multiplici-
  9. tr. Variation, or Figure; Dur is one common measure oF all Exiltence
  10. Wtiatsoever, wrherein all thines whils thes exist, equalls partalic. For
  11. eiis prelent moment is common to all things, that are nor in veins, and
  12. equallr comprehends that part of their Fxiltence, as much as if they Were
  13. al buc onc (insle Beins; and we mas cruls lay, ehes allexist in the lairre
  14. MOmENE OF Timme. Whether Angels and Spirits hare any Analogy to
  15. chis, in respeet ot Expansion, is berond my Comprehention: anct, per-
  16. haps, tor us, iho have Vndersandinss and Comprehensions, suired 10
  17. our onn Prelerration, and the ends of our omn Beins, but nOt to FHC
  18. realier and extent of all other Beinss, tis near as hard tO ConCeIRC any
  19. Fxiltence, or to have an Idea ot any real Beins, Wich a persest Nesation
  20. OFallmanner os Expanlion; as it is, to have the Idea ol any real Pxiltonce,
  21. rith a pertect Nesation ol all manner ot Duration: And theretore what
  22. Spirits haveto do ith Space, or how ther communicato in it, e lenio
  23. nOF. AII that re bnor is, that Bodies do cach (incly possels its prover
  24. Portion of it, accordino to tho extent ol ies solid Parrs; and thereby ex-
  25. elude all ocher Bodies trom harins an phare in chat particular portion ot
  26. Space, Whilst it remains Fhere.
  27. 5. T2. Duration and Time, Wrtrichis a part oF it, is the Idea we have
  28. of peristine distance, of Wwhich no to pares exist tocether, but tollo each
  29. Other in Succesion; as Expansion is the Idea of lasting distance, all Who se
  30. parts exist tocether, and are nor capable ot Succession. And theretore
  31. thoush wre cannot conceire any Duration without Succession, nor can
  32. put it together in our Thoushes, that any Beins does nor existtOMOr-
  33. row, or possels at once more than the prelene moment ot Duration; vet
  34. ve can conceire the eternal Duration of the Almisher tar difterent
  35. Fro thaL OFMan, or any ocher Anite Being. Becaule Nan comprehends
  36. not in his Hnomledse, or Poner, all past and future thinss: Ilis Phouxhts
  37. are but ofy esterdar, arid he Knos noc irhat to morro, will brins Forth.
  38. What is once pasled, he can never recal; and what is set to commc, he
  39. carnot make present. What Ilaz oF Nan, L Pas ol all finite Beings, Wtio
  40. though ches mas tar excccd Man in Rnomledge and POrer, yet are no
  41. more than ihe meanest Creature, in comparison with Cod himself. Fi.
  42. nice oanz Magnicude, holds not any proportion to infinite. GodS infi-
  43. nito Duration beine accompanied rith infinite Rnorledoe, and intinite
  44. Porer, he sees all things past and to come; and cher are no more distant
  45. fromhis Hnomledse, no Tarther removed trom hiis lihe, Than the present:
  46. Ther alI lic under the lame riem: And chere is nothine, Which he can-
  47. noc make exist cach moment he pleases. For the Fxistence of all chinss.
  48. dependins upon his sood Pleasure; all thines exist evers moment, that
  49. hethinks fic to havethem exist. Po conclude, Expantion and Duration
  50. do mutually imbrace, and comprehend each ocher; everr part ol Space,
  51. beins in every part ot Duration; and everr part of Duration, in everr
  52. port oE Expanlion. Such a Combination ot tivo distinet Ideas, is, I sup.
  53. pole, scarce to be tound in all that great Varietr, We do or can Can COn
  54. ceire, and may aftord Macter to Carther Speculation.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 97. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0113?run=74