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two concrete units, or two real times, or two spaces filled 

 up, that is, truly actual. 



If space is the property of the substance M'hich is in 

 space, the same space will, sometimes, be the property of 

 oue body, and sometimes of another. If the author de- 

 nies, that limited space is a property of limited things, 

 he must also deny, that infinite space is a property of 

 an infinite tiling. 



Spaces are sometimes empty, and sometimes filled up; 

 therefore, there will be, in the essence of God, parts 

 sometimes empty, and sometimes full, and, consequently, 

 liable to a perpetual change. 



God's immensity makes him actually present in all spa- 

 ces; but, now, if God is in space, how can it be said, 

 that space is in God? We have often heard, that a pro- 

 perty is in its subject; but never, that a subject is in 

 its property. 



The author departs from the received sense of words; 

 maintaining, that space has no parts, because its parts 

 aa'e not separable. But they may be assigned in space, 

 either by the bodies that are in it, or by lines and sur- 

 faces, di'awn and described in it. 



A man in a ship may not perceive its motion. The 

 reality of motion does not depend on its being observed; 

 but it does, on the possibility of its being observed. TJierCi 

 can be no motion, where no change can be observed. 



As to the objection, that space is a quantity, and that 

 situation and order are not so; I answer, that order has 



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