BOOK I PART II
The table before me is alone sufficient by its
view to give me the idea of extension. This
idea, then, is borrowed from, and represents
some impression, which this moment appears
to the senses. But my senses convey to me only
the impressions of coloured points, disposed in
a certain manner. If the eye is sensible of any
thing farther, I desire it may be pointed out to
me. But if it be impossible to shew any thing
farther, we may conclude with certainty, that
the idea of extension is nothing but a copy of
these coloured points, and of the manner of
their appearance.
Suppose that in the extended object, or com-
position of coloured points, from which we
first received the idea of extension, the points
were of a purple colour; it follows, that in ev-
ery repetition of that idea we would not only