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is faying that Extenfion Is a quality of a quality. Now, though 

 there be different fpeciefes of qualities, yet there is no ^ulitj, or 

 Accident^ of a ^tality, but only of a Subjiance. 



What leads men to believe that Space is extended, is, that it is 

 meafured ; but the fa£t truly is, that the Space .is not meafured, but 

 fome Body, which is in it, or fuppofed to be in it ; though it be na- 

 tural enough that, in common language, we fhould apply to Space 

 that extenfion and meafure, which can be properly predicated only 

 of the Body that is in it. 



And thus, I think, I have proved to be true, what indeed I have 

 always fuppofed to be true, that there is nothing in the univerfe but 

 Mind and Body and their properties ; and that Space is neither a fub- 

 ftance by itfelf, nor a property of either Mind or Body. 



Duration alfo is by fome made a property of things ; and Dr 

 Clarke, if I am not miftaken, makes Infinite Duration a property of 

 the Supreme Being : But, if Lifinite Duration be a property of 

 the Supreme Being, Duration limited^ that is, Time^ muft be a pro- 

 perty of Inferior Beings ; fo that here we have more common 

 property : But the fa£t truly is, that ivben, as well as ivhere, are 

 circumftances without which no being can exift, but which are 

 not properties of any being. We ought, therefore, to fay of 

 things, that they have endured fo long, and will endure fo much 

 longer : And, of the Supreme Being, we fhould fay, that he has 

 always endured, and will endure for ever. But we cannot predi- 

 cate, with any propriety, Time or Eternity, or Duration, of any 



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