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fprung^ To reftify which, he defines Bodies to be ^ Ex'- 
tended St^hl^ances^ and Matter an Aggregate of Bodies, ^ It f&unds 
Whence he inferrs , that Bodies are Indivilible and hard, To fay ^ 
Matter divifible^ a Body being nothing but otte and ^« extended 
the fubftance , whofe different extremities are in- ful^fiance is 
feparable, becaufe they are the extremities of one and the indivifible, 
fame ExteRfionj, and, in a word, of one and the fame 
Subflance : but Matter being nothing but an AfTociation or Colleftion 
of Bodies, 'tis evident, {faith he) it ff'^ift be divifible. This dodrine* 
he fo much infiftsupon, that he conceives . Nature cannot fubfift , if 
a Body in the fence he taiccs it, be divifible ^ and that Motion and Reft 
cannot be explicated without it. As for Quantity , he makes that to 
be nc hing but More or Lefs Bodies not allowing , that each Body 
fhould be a Quantity, though it be a part of Quantity ; no more than 
an Vnite is a Number, though it make part of a Number : fo that 
^antitj 2X[iExtenjion are two diftindl things with him, thejir/ be- 
longing properly to M^tter^ihQ laftto 2, Body. Touching Vacuity, he 
conceives, that the Bodies, which compofe a mafs, are not every where 
fo near one another, as not to leave fome interval in feveral places. 
Neither does h& think it neceffary, that thofe intervals ftiouldbe filled 
op - nor unconceivable, that there fhould be no Body between two Bo- 
dies- which touch not one another. And when *tis faid, that thofe in- 
tervals cannot be conceived without Extenfion, and that jconfc^uently 
there are Bodies that replenifh them, he frankly ftonounces that not to 
be true; and affirms, that ihoHgh^riiray ^e faid, that betv?een two 
Bodies, which touch not one another, other Bodies niay be placed of fo 
or fo many feet, &c; yet ought it not to be inferred, that therefore 
they are there, but onely, that they are thus placed, that there may be 
put between them fo mai^ Bodies, as Joyned together would compofe 
an Extenifion of fo many feet* So that one conceives onely, that Bodies 
may be placed there, but not that they are there : and as we can have 
an Idea of many Bodies,though none of them be in being • fo we can con« 
ceive,that fome Bodies ;^<si^be put between others, where really there 
are none. And when *tis.alledged, that if all the Bodies, thai: fill a 
vefferfull, were deftroyedj the fides of tfieveffel would be clofed toge- 
ther v He profeffcs, he underftands not that ratiocination, nor can con- 
reive, what one Body does to the fubfiftence of another, more than to 
fuftain themfelves mutually, when they are thruft by the neighbouring 
ones • and therefore fees not, why the fides of tbeveffel fliould dofe, 
if nothing did thrufi: them together ; but underftands clearly, that two 
Bodies may well fubfiR fo far from one another, that one mi|>bt place a 
great many Bodies between them, or none at aMj and yet they neither 
fspproach to, nor rccoil from one another, 
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