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Three sorts are distinguished, cold, hot, and temperate. In water, it is 

 cold ; in light, hot ; in earth and in air, temperate. Divers other sorts, 

 likewise, are noticed ; as hard and soft, and diversified, &c. 



These four qualities are latent in minute substances, as atoms and double 

 atoms ; manifest to perception in products or aggregates of greater magni- 

 tude. A mote in a sunbeam may be seen, though not felt. The colour 

 of the visual ray, or organ of sight, is ordinarily imperceptible. 



5. Number. It is the reason of perceiving and reckoning one, two, or 

 many, to the utmost limit of numeration. The notion of number is deduced • 

 from comparison. Of two masses seen, this is one, and that is one : hence 

 the notion of two, and so of more. 



It is an universal quality ; common to all substances, without exception. 



It is considered to be of two sorts, unity and multitude ; or of three, 

 monad, duad, and multitude. Unity is either eternal or transient : eternal 

 unity regards eternal things : that, which is uneternal, concerns effects or 

 transitory substances. 



6. Quantity. It is the special cause of the use and perception of mea- 

 sure. 



It is an universal quality, common to all substances. 



It is considered to be fourfold : great and small ; long and short. 



Extreme littleness and shortness are eternal ; as mind, or as atoms, 

 whether single or double, &c. Extreme length and greatness (termed in- 

 finite) are likewise eternal, as ether. 



Within tliese extremes is inferior magnitude or finite quantity : which is 

 uneternal. It is of various degrees in length and bulk, more or most, from 

 the mote or tertiary atom, upwards, to any magnitude short of infinite. 



The finite magnitude of products or effects results from number, size, or 

 mass. Multitude of atoms, bulk of particles, and heap of component parts, 

 constitute magnitude. The latter, or cumulation of particles, concerns a 

 loose texture. The others, close or compact. 



Infinity transcends the senses. An object may be too great, as it may be 

 too small, to be distinguished. 



7. Individuality, severalty, or separateness, is a quality common to all 

 substances. 



It is of two sorts ; individuality of one or of a pair ; or it is manifold, as 

 individuality of a triad, &c. Simple individuality is eternal, in respect of 

 eternal things ; transient, in regard to such as are transitory. Individuality 



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