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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 143

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  1. Chap. XXlII. Our Ideas ot Substances.
  2. imaxine, that his Soul can chints, or more a Body ac Oxford, Whilt hei
  3. at London; and cannot but Know, that beins united to his Body, it con
  4. Aantly changes place all the irhole journer, betrreen Oxford and London-
  5. asthe Coachu Or FTorse, does that carries him; and I chinki, mas be said
  6. tobe cruly all that wrhile in motion: Or if that will not be allowed to
  7. aftordus a elear Idea enoush oF is morion, its beins separated From the
  8. Body in death, Ithinl, Will: For to consider it, tog0 out ot the Body
  9. or leare il, and yet i0 have no Ldea ot iis morion, teeis to me impos
  10. sible.
  11. 5. 2F. IE ic be Caid b7 any one, chat il cannor chanse place, hecaute il
  12. hath nonc, for Spirits are not in Loco, but 2bi; I suppole chat waz oFtal
  13. kins, will nocnon beot much veistu iomans, in an ABC chat is nOL
  14. much disposedto admire, or sutter chemselres io be deccired, by such un-
  15. incellisible ays of speakins. Bur il any one chintis chere is ans sense in
  16. thac dictinction, and applicableto our prelent purpole, l delue hm to pu
  17. it into intellisible Enslistr; and then trom thence draw a realon to Ben.
  18. thac Spiritsarenoc capable ot Mocion. Indeedu Mocion cannot De aUxi.
  19. bucedto GOD, noc becaule heis a Spirit, but because fcis an Iytunite
  20. Spirit.
  21. 5. 22. Let us compare then our complex Idea oP Spirit, With our com-
  22. plex Paca of Body, and see Whether there be any more obscuritr in one,
  23. than in ehe ocher, and in which most. Dur Idea otBods, 25 I chinls, id
  24. in extended solid Substance, capable ot communicarins potion by im
  25. pulle: And our Idea oF our Souls, is oF a Substance thar phinES, and has a
  26. pover ol excitins Morion in BodY, bY Will, or Phoustu. Theso, Ichink
  27. areour complex Ideas of Soul and Body, as contradistinguished: and no let
  28. us examine which has most obscurier in ic, and difticultr to be apprehen-
  29. ded. Ilnon that People, Whose Thouslus are immersed in Matter, and
  30. hare so subieered their Minds totheir Senses, that ther seldom reftect on
  31. anx thins bezondthem, are apt to lay, thes cannor comprehend a thin-
  32. bins thins, erhich, perhaps, is. true: ButI afturm, When they consider it
  33. ell, they con nomore comprehend an extended thing.
  34. 8. 23. Frany ove says, helenors noc ihat tisthints in him; he means,
  35. helnoms not Whatthe substance is o chat chinkins chins: Nomore, lay
  36. I. Knors he whiat the substance is of that solid thing. Farther, ilhe lays
  37. he lnoms not hou hechintes; Pansver, Neither Lnonshe hor he is ex-
  38. tended; hou the solid parts ot Body are united, or cohere togethex to
  39. malie Excension. For chouohthe precture olche Partieles ot Air, may ac
  40. coune tor the cohesion of. several parts of Matter, thar are srosler thanehc
  41. Partieles oF Air, and have Pores less thanthe Corpuseles of Nir; vet che
  42. reishe, or pressure, ot the Air, will not explain, nor can be a cause
  43. Ofthe coherence ot tho Particles ot Airthemselres. And il ine prelture
  44. ot the Acher, or any subciler Macier than ihe Ai, mas unite, and hold
  45. Fast together, thepares of a Particle oF Air, as Wrell as ocher Bodies; yct
  46. it cannor mate Bonds for ic selt, andhold rosether the paris that make
  47. uxeverr rhe least corpusele of chat materia subtilis. S0 that that Hypo.
  48. chelis, hor ingenioully soever explained, by Bemins, thac the pares ot
  49. sensible Bodies are heldrogether, by the precture ot ocher external insen-
  50. sible Bodies, reaches not the parrs of the sthex it (ClF; and by hor much
  51. che more evident it prores, that che parts oF other Bodies are held toge-
  52. cher, brthe external pressure of the Ather; and can have no other con-
  53. ceivatole cause of their cohesion and union, by s0 much the more it leares
  54. us in che dark concernins che cohelion of che parts ofthe Corpuseles ol the
  55. her it selt: Wtrich re can neicher conceive wictout pares, ches beine
  56. BOc1C5,

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 143. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0159?run=74