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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 144

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  1. Our Ideas of Substances.
  2. Bodies atd divisible, nor vet hor cheir parrs colere, ther ranrins chac
  3. caule oF cotiesion, Wrhich is giren of the cohetion of the parts oF all other
  4. Bodies.
  5. 8. 24. Dut in truch the pressure of any ambient Fluid, hoW Great (oever,
  6. ean be nointelligible cause of The cohesion of the solid parts of Matier. For
  7. thousl such a pressure may hinder the avulsion ot ero polistied Super-
  8. fcies, one trom another in a Line perpendicular tothem, as in the Expe.
  9. riment ofero politred Marbles: Vet ic can never, in che least, hinder tho
  10. separation by a Motion, in a Line parallel to thele Superticies. Because
  11. che ambient Auid, havins a tull liberty to succced in cach point ot Space,
  12. diserted by a lateral motion, relists such a motion oF Bodies (0 joincd, no
  13. more, than it ould resist the motion ot thar Body, vere it on all sices
  14. environed by that Fluid, and touched no other BodY: Andtheretore, il
  15. chere vere no other caule ot cohesion, aIl parts of Bodies must be casily
  16. separable by such a lateral Piding motion. Forit che pressure ofche Acher
  17. be the adequate eause of cohetion, irhere ever that cause operates nOE,
  18. there can be no cohesion. And since it Cannor operate againt such a la-
  19. ceral separation, (as has been Mered,) cheresore in every unaginary plain,
  20. interlecting any mass ot Marter, there could be no more cohelion, thanot
  21. erro polistied Superticies; erhieh will alvars, nocwithtandivs any ima
  22. sinable precture of2 Fluid, casilz Aide one trom anocher: (0 thaF, per-
  23. haps, hor clear an Ldea soever e thinte re have oF the Fixcension
  24. ofBodr, ertich is nochins bur the cohesion ot solid parts, he chac Mall
  25. ell consider it inhris Mind, may have realon to conclude, Thac ris as
  26. easie For tim to have a clear Idea, hou the Soul thints, as hou Body is ex-
  27. tended. For lince Body is no Parther, nor otherwise extended, than by
  28. the union and cohesion of its solid parts, e Mall very ill comprehend
  29. the extension of Body, withour understanding iherein consilts the union
  30. and cohesion of ies parts; Which seems to me as incomprehiensible, as the
  31. manner of Thintins, and hor ic is pertormed.
  32. 6. 25. Tallon, it is usual for most People to monder, hoir aur one
  33. Mrould finda disficultr in Wwhat chez chink thez every day observe. Do We
  34. not scc, ill they be ready to Pay, the parts oF Bodies sick fumly tore.
  35. ther: Is there any thins more common: And wrhat doubt can there be
  36. made ofit: And chelike, I say, concernins Thintins, and voluntarr
  37. Motion: Dore nocevers moment experiment it in our lelves; and there-
  38. fore can it be doubted. The matrer ot tactis clear, I contels; but wten
  39. ere vould a little nearer look into it, and consider hor it is done, there,
  40. Ichink, We areat a lols, both inthe one, and theottier; and can as lictle
  41. understand hou the parts of Body cohere, as how ve our selves perceive,
  42. Or move. Ivould have ans one intellisibls explain to me, hior the
  43. parts of Gold, or Brals, (that but vorr in fusion vere as le ole trom onc ano-
  44. ther, as tho Particles oF Water, or ehe Sands ot an ITour- glals,) come in
  45. a terr moments to be sounited, and adhere (0 Aronely one ro another,
  46. thac the utmost Force otMensarms cannot separare them: a considerine
  47. Nan will. Ysuppose, be here at a lols, tolatistie his omn, or another Mans
  48. Vnderctandine
  49. 5. 26. Thelittle Bodies that compose that Fluid, WWe calI Water, are 10
  50. extreamlr lnall, that l have never heard ot anv one, Who by a Micro
  51. Scope, (and vet P hare heard oF lome, that hare magnihied tO FOCOO;
  52. naY; to much abore 10000otimes,) pretended to perceire cheir di
  53. Rinct Bult, Figure, Or Motion: And the Particles ofWater, are allo (0 per.
  54. Tectly loole one trom another, that the least torce sensibly separates them.
  55. Pas, il We consider iheis perpecual morion, ne mult allor rhemco have
  56. +C
  57. BOc

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 144. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0160?run=74