BOOK I PART II
at last indivisible; and these indivisible parts,
being nothing in themselves, are inconceivable
when not filled with something real and exis-
tent. The ideas of space and time are therefore
no separate or distinct ideas, but merely those
of the manner or order, in which objects exist:
Or in other words, it is impossible to conceive
either a vacuum and extension without mat-
ter, or a time, when there was no succession or
change in any real existence. The intimate con-
nexion betwixt these parts of our system is the
reason why we shall examine together the ob-
jections, which have been urged against both
of them, beginning with those against the finite
divisibility of extension.
I. The first of these objections, which I shall
take notice of, is more proper to prove this con-
nexion and dependence of the one part upon