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•uite. Nor is it a bare relation of one thing to another, 

 arising from their situation or order; because space is a 

 quantity, which relations (such as situation and order) are 

 not. 



If it were true, that ratios and proportions were quan- 

 tities, yet it Av^ould not follow, that situation and order, 

 Avhich are relations of a different kind, Avould be quan- 

 tities also. But, secondly, proportions are not quantities, 

 but the proportions of quantities. A proportion is not 

 a greater or less quantity of comparison or relation, but 

 the comparison of a greater or lesser quantity. Space is 

 the place of ideas, because it is the place of the sub- 

 stances themselves, in Avhose understandings ideas exist. 



Death prevented Leibnitz from replying to these last pa- 

 ragraphs; but the objections they contain were replied to, 

 by Lewis Philip Thummigius, in 1722. I have not as yet 

 been able to procure his annotations. 



In England, this controversy was again revived, in 

 1731, by Dr. Law, late Bishop of Carlisle, in his notes 

 on Archbishop King's Essays on the Origin of Evil, who 

 denied the reality of space; and was soon after answer- 

 ed (as is supposed) by Dr. Gregory Sharpe, who support- 

 ed Dr. Clarke's opinion. This answer Dr. Law endea- 

 voured to invalidate, in his notes to a second edition of 

 King's Essay; and to his objections, Sharpe again replied. 



The new combatants treated this subject in a manner 

 somewhat different from the preceding. Of this I shall 

 now give a summary view. 



Late. 



