12. This train, the measure of other successions. 1 3 5. The mind cannot fix long on one invariable idea. 16. Ideas, however made, in- 17. Time is duration set out by measures. 18. A good measure of time must divide its whole 19. The revolutions of the sun ances. appear 21. No two parts of duration can be certainly known to be equal. 22. Time not the measure of motion. 23. Minutes, hours, and years, not necessary measures of duration. 24-26. Our measure of time applicable to duration before time. 27-30. Eternity. 2. Expansion not bounded by matter. 3. Nor duration by motion. 4. Why men more easily admit infinite duration, than infinite expansion. 5. Time to duration, is as place to expansion. 6. Time and place are taken for so much of either as are set out by the existence and motion of bodies. 7. Sometimes for so much of either as we design by measure taken from the bulk or motion of bodies. 8. They belong to all beings. 9. All the parts of extension, are extension; and all the parts of duration are duration. 10. Their parts inseparable. 11. Duration is as a line, expansion as a solid. 12. Duration has never two parts together, expansion all together. determines not the will, but uneasiness. 36. Because the removal of uneasiness is the first step to happiness. 37. Because uneasiness alone is present. 38. Because all, who allow the joys of heaven possible, pursue them not. But a great uneasiness is never neglected. 39. Desire accompanies all uneasiness. 40. The most pressing uneasiness naturally determines the will. 41. All desire happiness. 42. Happiness, what. 43. What good is desired, what 18. Thinking and motivity the primary ideas of spi rit. 19-21. Spirits capable of motion. 22. Idea of soul and body compared. 23-27. Cohesion of solid parts in body, as hard to be conceived, as thinking in a soul. 28, 29. Communication of motion by impulse, or by thought, equally intelligible. 30. Ideas of body and spirit compared. 31. The notion of spirit involves no more difficulty in it than that of body. 32. We know nothing beyond our simple ideas. 33-35. Idea of God. 36. No ideas in our complex one of spirits, but those got from sensation or reflection. 37. Recapitulation. CHAP. XXIV. Of collective ideas of substances. SECT. 5. Change of relation may be without any change in the subject. 6. Relation only betwixt two things. 7. All things capable of relation. 8. The ideas of relation clearer often, than of the subjects related. 9. Relations all terminate in simple ideas. 10. Terms leading the mind beyond the subjects denominated, are relative. 11. Conclusion. CHAP. XXVI. Of cause and effect, and other relations. SECT. 1. Whence their ideas got. 3, 4. Relations of time. 5. Relations of place and ex tension. 6. Absolute terms often stand for relations. CHAP. XXVII. |