BOOK I PART II
perceptions in our mind; so that the idea of
time being for ever present with us; when we
consider a stedfast object at five-a-clock, and
regard the same at six; we are apt to apply to
it that idea in the same manner as if every mo-
ment were distinguished by a different posi-
tion, or an alteration of the object. The first and
second appearances of the object, being com-
pared with the succession of our perceptions,
seem equally removed as if the object had re-
ally changed. To which we may add, what ex-
perience shews us, that the object was suscepti-
ble of such a number of changes betwixt these
appearances; as also that the unchangeable or
rather fictitious duration has the same effect
upon every quality, by encreasing or diminish-
ing it, as that succession, which is obvious to
the senses. From these three relations we are
apt to confound our ideas, and imagine we can