" ing itself a substance,) necessarily presupposes ■ a^ i svib- 

 " stance, M-ithout ^N^liich it cbiild'hot ^iM." ' ' ' 

 '•' 'Ih:;l^is fifth Lfetter, 'Dr. '"Biitler deiii^Si'itbati'i^pace caii 

 ' be siip'iios'ed a pr6^6rty • m* "ifibdificatioii df the'iDiviite 

 si.iKstah6e'i ' f6i',' ' 'if ' 'tli^f' 'W^W afiniliifet^d,- ' still -the' id^a of 

 spaie Vvoilld reniairl; and owns himself eft -a loss to de- 

 fine 'iiie 'nature of space. To which Dr. Clarke replies, 

 '^|'H^a!t,^*'^ice spi^cfe^necessarily remaiifs, efek after it 'is 

 '^'^su^p'6'sed to 'be ta^ken away,-^a'nd is ^riot itself a ■ sub- 

 ""'itan'ce,' as it i's' plain it is ii6t, theh "the substance, on 

 '*'''wh'C)^e ^existence it depends, will ne^cessarily remain also, 

 "'''even after it is supposed to be ta'ken away; Avhich shews 

 ''"'the suppositidri to be impossible aiid'Contra<iictory." 

 '"''■''I'hus' that-correspondence ended. But, in an answer "to 

 "anothef^Cjentleman, Dr. Clarke asserts, that infinite space 

 Is infinite extension; and, that to suppose it finite, is an 

 '^e'ipress contradiction. And, that " they Avho remove the 

 " idea of infinity, by supposing space to be nothing but ' 

 ■'''a relation between two bodies, are guilty of an absur- 

 *' dity, by supposing that which- is nothing to have real 

 "quantities; for the space, betwixt two bodies, is always 

 " unalterably just what it was, and has the same dimen- 

 " sioiis, quantity, and figure, whether these, or any other 

 * *' bodies, be there, or any where else, or not at all." — 

 To set bounds to space, is to suppose it bounded by 

 something, which, itself, takes up space; and that is a 



contradiction. 



But 



