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Its quantity: there is distance, there is interval. Relative 

 things have their quantity, as well as absolute onei; for 

 ijQstance, ratios or proportions. 



Space is not the place of all things, for it is not the 

 place of God; nor can I see, how it can be said to be 

 the place of ideas, for ideas are in the mind. 



Clarke. It was affirmed, that the motion of the uni- 

 verse would produce no change at all: yet no answer was 

 given to the argument, that a sudden increase, or cessa- 

 tion of the motion of the whole, wou d give a seisible 

 shock to all the parts. And no way is sLe vn, to avoid 

 this absurd consequence, that the mobility of one body 

 depends on the existence of other bodies. 



The space occupied by a body is not the extension of 

 the body; but the extended body exists in that space. 

 There is no such thing, m reality, as bounded space: we 

 only imagine, or fix our attention, on what part we please. 

 It does not pass from subject to subject, but i always, 

 invariably, the immensity of one and the same irnmensum. 

 God sufi'ers no change, by the variety and changeableness 

 of things ; as St. Paul says. Acts, xvii. 28. in him all things 

 move, and have their being. 



God does not exist in space, but his existence causes 

 space. Space is not absolutely nothing; for of nothing 

 there is no quantity, no dimensions, no properties. Nor 

 is it a mere idea, for no idea of space can be framed, 

 larger than finite. And yet, reason demonstrates, that it 

 is a contradiction, that space should not to be actually infi- 

 nite. 



