BOOK I PART II
ered in a certain light; but being annexed to
general terms, they are able to represent a vast
variety, and to comprehend objects, which, as
they are alike in some particulars, are in others
vastly wide of each other.
The idea of time, being derived from the suc-
cession of our perceptions of every kind, ideas
as well as impressions, and impressions of re-
flection as well as of sensations will afford us
an instance of an abstract idea, which compre-
hends a still greater variety than that of space,
and yet is represented in the fancy by some par-
ticular individual idea of a determinate quan-
tity and quality.
As it is from the disposition of visible and
tangible objects we receive the idea of space, so
from the succession of ideas and impressions
we form the idea of time, nor is it possible for