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the same time I indicated to you that I had not yet 

 resolved to make it known. I asked your opinion of it 

 in exchange ; but I do not recollect having received 

 objections from you : otherwise, teachable [docile] as 

 I am, I should not have caused you to offer the same 

 objections twice over. Nevertheless they still come in 

 time, although they come after I have published. For 

 I am not of those with whom the committing of them- 

 selves to an opinion takes the place of reason, as you will 

 find when you are able to say that you have brought 

 forward 2 any precise and urgent reason against my 

 opinions ; which apparently has not been your purpose s . 

 Your intention was to speak as an able Academic 4 , and 

 thus to give an opportunity for a thorough investigation 

 of things. 



i 6 . I intended to explain here, not the principles of 

 extension [Vetendue], but the principles of that which 

 is actually extended [Tetendu effectif] or of bodily mass ; 

 and these principles, in my opinion, are real unities, that 

 is to say, substances possessing a genuine unity 6 . 



2. The unity of a clock, which you mention, is in my 

 view quite other than that of an animal ; for an animal 

 may be a substance possessing a genuine unity, like what 

 is called ego [moi] in us ; while a clock is nothing but an 

 aggregate [assemblage]. 



3. I do not find the principle of the animal's conscious- 

 ness \le prindpe sensitif^ in the arrangement [disposition] 

 of its organs ; and I agree that this arrangement concerns 

 only the bodily mass 7 . 



a E. has < when you are able to bring forward.' 



8 E. adds ' on this occasion.' 



* In reference to Foucher's philosophical position. See Prefatory 

 Note. 



6 In G.'s text the paragraphs are numbered. In E.'s text they 

 are not numbered, and the paragraphs are differently divided. 



6 Foucher had maintained that 'the essential principles of ex- 

 tension cannot really exist,' i.e. that extension has no ultimate 

 real elements. (E. 129 a ; G. iv. 487.) Cf. Appendix H, p. 329. 



T Foucher had said : * Whatever arrangement [disposition] the 

 organs of an animal might have, that is not enough to make it 



