fprtsngi To reftify which, he defines Bodies to be * Ex~ 
tended Sub fiances, and Matter an Aggregate of Bodies. . * It founds 
Whence he inferrs # that Bodies are Indivifible and hard, To fay , 
Matter divifible* a Body being nothing but one and ^extended 
the f awe fubflancc , whofe different extremities are in- fubfiance is 
feparable, beeaufe they are the extremities of one and the indivifible* 
fame Exten(ion ? and, in a word, of one and the fame 
Subffance : but Matter being nothing but an Affociation or Colle&ion 
of Bodies, *tis evident, ( faith he) it trail be divifible. This do&rine 
he fo much infills upon, that he conceives, Nature cannot fubfifl , if 
a Body in the fence he takes it, be divifible ^ and that Motion and Reft 
cannot be explicated without it. As for Quantity , he makes that to 
be nothing but More orLefs 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 
Quantity and Extepflfln are two diftind things with him, the firft be- 
longing, properly to Matter, the jaft lO b Bed]. 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 he think it necefTary, that thofe intervals fhould be fill'd 
up - nor unconceivable, that there fhould be no Body between two Bo- 
dies- which* touch notone another-,, : Apd when ’tis faid, that thofe in- 
tervals cannot be conceived without Extenfion, and that 'consequently 
there are Bodies tha^t replenifh them, he frankly pronounces that not to 
be true v and affirms, that though it may be faid, that between two 
Bodies, which touch not one another, other Bodies may be placed of fo 
or fo many feet, &c: yet ought it not to be inferred v that therefore 
they are there, butondy, that they are thus placed, that there may be 
put between them fo many Bodies, as joyned together would compofe 
an Extenfion 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 • (o we can con- 
ceive,that fome Bodies may be put between others, where really there 
are none. And yffienYis alledged, that if all the Bodies,, that fill a 
veffel full, were deftroyed, the fides qf the veffel would he doled toge- 
ther -, He profeffes he underflands not that ratiocination, nor can con- 
ceive, what one Body does to the fubfiflence of another, more than to 
fuftain themfelves mutually, when they are thrufl: by the neighbouring 
ones ; and therefore, fees not, why the, hdes. of the veffel fhould clofe, 
if pQihfng did thruffthem- together ; but underflands clearly, that two 
Bodies mpy well fuhfiil.fc far from one another, that .one .might place a 
great many Bodies between them, or none, at , atl 3 and yet they neither 
approach to, nor recoil-from one ( auother, 
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