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suppose that the univejbe could have had, at first, another 

 position, or place, than that which it actually had ; and 

 yet, that all the parts should have had the same situation 

 among themselves, as that which they actually had; such 

 a supposition is an impossible fiction. — If space be a 

 property, it must be the property of some substance; 

 bat of what substance Avill bounded empty space be the 

 property ? 



If infinite space be immensity, finite space will be the 

 opposite to immensity; it will be mensurability, or limited 

 extension. Now, extension must be the affection of some- 

 thing extended: but, if that space be empty, it will be 

 an attribute without a subject; an extension, without any 

 thing extended. 



If space is an absolute reality, far from being a pro- 

 perty opposed to substance, it will have a greater reality 

 than substances themselves. God cannot destroy it, nor 

 even change it. It will be immense, immutable, and eter- 

 nal. — To say, that God can cause the whole universe to 

 move forward, in a right line, or any other line, without 

 making any other alteration in it, is a chimerical suppo- 

 sition: for two states, indiscernible from each other, are 

 the same state; and, consequently, it is a change without 

 any change. 



Clirke. Two things, by being exactly alike, do not 

 cease to be two: the parts of time are exactly alike, yet 

 two instants are not the same instant, nor are they two 

 names of the same instant. 



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