BOOK I PART II
SECTIONIV. OBJECTIONSANSWERED
Our system concerning space and time con-
sists of two parts, which are intimately con-
nected together. The first depends on this chain
of reasoning. The capacity of the mind is not in-
finite; consequently no idea of extension or du-
ration consists of an infinite number of parts or
inferior ideas, but of a finite number, and these
simple and indivisible: It is therefore possible
for space and time to exist conformable to this
idea: And if it be possible, it is certain they ac-
tually do exist conformable to it; since their in-
finite divisibility is utterly impossible and con-
tradictory.
The other part of our system is a conse-
quence of this. The parts, into which the ideas
of space and time resolve themselves, become