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Extramundane space (if the world be finite) is not ima- 

 ginary. 



Space, void of body, is the property of an incorporeal 

 substance. It is not bounded by bodies, but exists equally 

 within, and without bodies. It is not enclosed between 

 bodies; but bodies, existing in vmbounded space, are them- 

 selves only terminated by their own dimensions. Void 

 space is not an attribute, without a subject; for God is 

 certainly present, and possibly many other substances, 

 which are not matter. Parts, in the corporeal sense of the 

 word, are separable: but infinite space, though it may, 

 l)yus, be partially apprehended, that is, may, in our ima- 

 gination, be conceived, as composed of parts; yet these 

 parts, -(improperly so called,) being essentially indiscerp- 

 tible and immoveable, are not partible, without an express 

 contradiction in terms. 



If the world be finite, it is moveable by the power of 

 God. Two places, though exactly alike, are not the 

 same place: nor is the motion or rest of the universe the 

 same state, any more than the motion or rest of a ship 

 is the same state, because a man, shut up in the cabin, 

 perceives it not; but, upon a sudden stop, it would have 

 other real effects. Space is the place of all things, and 

 of all ideas; as duration is the duration of all things, and 

 of all ideas. 



Leibnitz. The parts of time or place, considered in them- 

 selves, are ideal things, and therefore perfectly resemble 

 one another, like two abstract units; but it is not so with 



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