An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 102

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2. BOc
3. Space DY Carcher Addicions, remaining sill the lame, he hence taltes the
4. Idea of insinite Space.
5. 5. 4. This, Ichink, is the way whereby che Mind gers the Idea of
6. infinite Space. Fisa quite different Consideration to examine, whetler
7. the Mindhas the Ldeâ oF luch a bonnaless Space actually existine. Cince
8. Our Ideas are noc alvays Proos othie Lixiltence ot Thinss; but yet lince
9. chis comes here in our rar, I suppole I may lay, that ve are aptto chint,
10. that Space in it selFis actuallr boundlels, to which Imasination, the Idea
11. Ospace ex Expantion ofits selt naturally leads us. Lor it beins consice.
12. red by us, cither as the Extension ot Bodi, or as exicting by it sclF, With.
13. outany solid Marter tabing it up, (For oF such a void Space, We have nor
14. ontr the cdca, but Thareproved, as lchinte, trom the Mocior ot Bodr, ils
15. necessary existence,) it is impossible the Mind Mould be ever able to tind
16. or suppose any end ofit, or be Ropp d any vitere, in its proerels in this
17. Space, hor lar loerer it extends its Phouxhus. Any Bounds made with
18. Body, even Adamantine Walls, are (0 tar trom putting a Rop tothemind
19. in its farther proorels in Space and Fxtension, that it rather facilitates and
20. enlarses it: For(o tar as that Body reaches, (0 tar nio ore cari doube of
21. FXtention; and Wrhen veare come to the urmost extremits of Body, What
22. isthere that can there put a Aop and larissic the Mind, that it is at the
23. end ot Space, When itperceire it is not; nar, wrhen it is laristied chae B0.
24. dy it sel can more intoit: For it it benecellary for chemotion of Body.
25. that there Mould be an emper Space, thoueh never (o little hereamongst
26. Bodies, and it be possible for Body to move in or throush thatempey
27. Space; nay, it is impossible tor ans particle of Matter to move but into
28. an empry space, the same possibilier of a Bodies movins into a void
29. Space, berond the utmost Bounds oF Body, as vell as into a void Space
30. interspersed amonsst Bodies, will alvazs remain clear and evident, the
31. Idea OF empey pure Space, irhether within or berond the contines oF alt
32. Bocies, beine exactly thelame, ditterins noc in Nature, though in Bulk;
33. and chere beins nothins to hinder Body trom movins into it: S0 thaE
34. Wvherever the Mind places it selfby any thought, cither amonost Or re-
35. mote trom all Bocies, it can in this unitorm Idea of Space no-Where find
36. any bounds, any end; and somust neceslarils conclude it by the verr Na-
37. ture and Idea oF each part oF it to be actually intinite.
38. D. 5. Asby the pover re tind in our selves oFrepeatins, as often as e
39. ill, any Idea ot Space, we set the Idea eimmentur; lo by beins able
40. to repeat the Idea of any lenoth of Duration e have in our Minds, with
41. all the eneless addition of Number, e come by the Idea oF Eternitr.
42. For re find in our selves e cannomore come to an end ot such repeared
43. Ideas, than we can come to the end of Number, wtrich every ore per-
44. ceires hecannor. But here again ris another queltion, quite different
45. trom our having an sdea ot Fternity, t0 hnom whether there vere angreal
46. Beine, Wtrole Duration has been eternat. Hlechat considers lomerhine
47. no existing, mult necessarils come ro Comethins crernal, bur havins
48. spote of this in another place, P Mall Pay here no more ot it, but procced
49. On to lome other Considerations oF our Idea ot Intinity.
50. 6. 6. IF it De lo, thatour Pdea of intinity besor trom the Pover we ob
51. serve in our selves, of repeatins wichout end our omn Ideas; IE may be
52. demanded. Why ve do not attribute Infinity to other Ideas, as Well as
53. those of Space and Duration; since thes mar be 25 casily, and as osten
54. repeated in our Mlinds a5 the otter; and vet no body ever thintes et in-
55. Anite Siveetness, or infinire whireness, though he ean repeat the Idea ot
56. Siveet or White, as Trequenly as chose Ot a Z ard, or 2 Day. Z0 wtiiet

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 102. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0118?run=74