A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART I in our minds all the simple ideas, of which these complex ones are composed. It is how- ever observable, that notw ...

BOOK I PART I gether, said placed under a general term with a view to that resemblance, which they bear to each other, this rela ...

BOOK I PART I any present, beside those very ideas, that are thus collected by a kind of magical faculty in the soul, which, tho ...

BOOK I PART I nite in their number, it is only by custom they can become general in their representation, and contain an infinit ...

BOOK I PART I of reason, since it implies neither a difference nor separation. To remove this difficulty we must have re- course ...

BOOK I PART I blances, in what formerly seemed, and really is, perfectly inseparable. After a little more prac- tice of this kin ...

BOOK I PART I son, who desires us to consider the figure of a globe of white marble without thinking on its colour, desires an i ...

PART II OF THEIDEAS OFSPACE ANDTIME SECTIONI. OF THEINFINITEDIVISABILITY OF OURIDEAS OFSPACE ANDTIME Whatever has the air of a p ...

BOOK I PART II persuaded that its pleasure is entirely with- out foundation. From these dispositions in philosophers and their d ...

BOOK I PART II must consist of an infinite number of parts, and that it is impossible to set any bounds to the number of parts, ...

BOOK I PART II without a total annihilation. When you tell me of the thousandth and ten thousandth part of a grain of sand, I ha ...

BOOK I PART II Put a spot of ink upon paper, fix your eye upon that spot, and retire to such a distance, that, at last you lose ...

BOOK I PART II We may hence discover the error of the com- mon opinion, that the capacity of the mind is limited on both sides, ...

BOOK I PART II hastily conclude, that these are inferior to any idea of our imagination or impression of our senses. This howeve ...

BOOK I PART II SECTIONII. OF THEINFINITEDIVISIBILITY OFSPACE ANDTIME Wherever ideas are adequate representa- tions of objects, t ...

BOOK I PART II Every thing capable of being infinitely di- vided contains an infinite number of parts; oth- erwise the division ...

BOOK I PART II and find the compound idea of extension, aris- ing from its repetition, always to augment, and become double, tri ...

BOOK I PART II I may subjoin another argument proposed by a noted author (Mons. Malezieu), which seems to me very strong and bea ...

BOOK I PART II number, according to the common sentiment of metaphysicians, and never resolves itself into any unite or indivisi ...

BOOK I PART II and incapable of being resolved into any lesser unity. All this reasoning takes place with regard to time; along ...