BOOK I PART II
opinion, as being more suitable to vulgar and
popular notions. If theNewtonianphilosophy
be rightly understood, it will be found to mean
no more. A vacuum is asserted: That is, bod-
ies are said to be placed after such a manner,
is to receive bodies betwixt them, without im-
pulsion or penetration. The real nature of this
position of bodies is unknown. We are only ac-
quainted with its effects on the senses, and its
power of receiving body. Nothing is more suit-
able to that philosophy, than a modest scepti-
cism to a certain degree, and a fair confession
of ignorance in subjects, that exceed all human
capacity.)
I shall conclude this subject of extension with
a paradox, which will easily be explained from
the foregoing reasoning. This paradox is, that if
you are pleased to give to the in-visible and in-