Chap. 2. A Trewft of BODIES. 



extenfion rcquireih that one part be not in the fame place, 

 where theother is : then if this cxtenfion be compofedof indi- 

 vifiblcs, let us take two points of place in which this extension 

 is, and inquire whether the indivifibles that arc in each one of 

 thefe points, be finite or infinite. If it be anfwered that they arc 

 finite, then the finite indivifibles in thefe two points make an 

 extenfion ; which we have proved impoffible. But if they be 

 faid to be infinite ; then infinite indivifibles are drowned in one 

 point, and confequently have not the force to make extenfion. 

 Thus then it remaineth firmly eftablifhed, That Quantity if 

 not cempofed of inAivifiblcs ( neither finite, nor infinite ones } 

 and con.equently, That p<*rts are not attually in it. 



Yet before we leave this point, although we have already 

 been fbmevvhat long about it> I conceive it will wot be tedious, An 

 if we be vet a little lonper, and bend our djfcourfe to remove a to provc ll l u 



, - ' , n / n/- / i t n ^ prts are actu 



difficulty that even Seme it felt feemeth to object unto us.. For ally in Quand- 

 doth not our eye evidently inform us, there are fingers, hands, d a ; ra TioJof d th 

 arms, legs, feet, toes and variety of other pans in a mans bo. nftake from 

 dy? Thefe are actually in him, and fecm to be diftinit, things in 

 him, fo evidently, that we cannot perfwaded, but that we lee, 

 and feel the diftin&ion between them * for every one of them 

 hath a particular power of auall working and doing what 

 belongeth unto its nature to do r each finger is really there;, 

 the hand is different from the foot; the leg from the arm ; and 

 fb of the reft. Are not thefe parts then actually and really in a 

 mans body ? And is not each of them as really diftinguiftied 

 from any other ? 



This appeareth at the firft fight to be an infuperable objecti- 

 on, becaufe of the confirmation and evidence thatfenfe feemeth 

 to give it. But looking nearly into the matter, we fhall find 

 that the difficulty arifeth not from what fenfe informeth us ofj 

 but from our wrong applying the conditions of our notions un- 

 to the things that make imprelfions upon our fenfe.. Senfc 

 judgeth not which is a finger, which is a hand, or which is a 

 foot. The notions agreeing to thefe words, as well as the words 

 themfelves, are productions of the underftanding : which con- 

 fidering feverall impreflions made upon the fenfe by the fame 

 thing as it hath a virtue and power to feverall operations, fra- 

 tncth feverall notions of k: a& in our former example, it doth 



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