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It will be afked, Where or When Mind exifts ? or <lo I fay, That 

 ?v^ind exifts in no PJacc, and in no Time ? To this I anfwci, J hat 

 the Categories of -where and ivheii muft neceflarily apply to every 

 thing ; and, therefore, that our Minds muft neceftarily exift in 

 forae Time, or in fome Place ; for, as they ad at certain Times, 

 and in certain Places, they muft of necefllty exift iji thofe Times, 

 and in thofe Places. 



In order to folve thefe difficulties, and to explain what no doubt 

 appears very paradoxical, we muft confider that, as Mind is of a 

 nature perfectly different from Body, it muft exift in a manner quite 

 different ; and it is natural to think that it fhoiild exift in a manner 

 different, even with refped to thefe common attributes of Time and 

 Place. 



That Mind is of a nature quite different from Body, I hope I have 

 fufficiently proved * ; and, particularly, that it is not extended as Bo- 

 dy is ; and that it has not the three dimenfions of Length, Breadth, 

 and Depth ; the confequence of the contrary fuppofition being, as I 

 Lave Ihown, raoft abfurd and ridiculous, fuch as that of its being 

 figured and divifible. Now, if it be not extended, it cannot occupy 

 Space ; for it is impoflible to conceive a thing extended which does 

 not occupy that Space, over which it is extended. At the fame time, 

 it is neceifary, as I have faid,that the Mind fliould exift fome where, 

 that is, in fome Space, but not in the manner in which Body ex- 

 ifts in Space, but in a manner altogether different, of which we can- 

 not have any clear Idea, any more than of Mind itfelf, which wc 

 are fure exifts without Parts : And yet no man can fay that he has a 

 clear conception of a Subftance exifting without Parts ; the reafon 

 of which is, that, being fo intimately conneded with Body, as we 

 are, and converfant only with it in the firft years of our life, wc 

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■* See Book I. Chap. 7. of this Volume. 



