BOOK I PART II
Thus I seem to have answered the three ob-
jections above-mentioned; though at the same
time I am sensible, that few will be satisfyed
with these answers, but will immediately pro-
pose new objections and difficulties. It will
probably be said, that my reasoning makes
nothing to the matter in hands and that I ex-
plain only the manner in which objects affect
the senses, without endeavouring to account
for their real nature and operations. Though
there be nothing visible or tangible interposed
betwixt two bodies, yet we findby experienceE,
that the bodies may be placed in the same man-
ner, with regard to the eye, and require the
same motion of the hand in passing from one
to the other, as if divided by something visible
and tangible. This invisible and intangible dis-
tance is also found by experience to contain a
capacity of receiving body, or of becoming vis-