A Treatise of Human Nature

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BOOK I PART II


have appeared in that narrow compass. This is
the universe of the imagination, nor have we
any idea but what is there produced.


The farthest we can go towards a conception
of external objects, when supposedspecifically
different from our perceptions, is to form a rel-
ative idea of them, without pretending to com-
prehend the related objects. Generally speak-
ing we do not suppose them specifically dif-
ferent; but only attribute to them different re-
lations, connections and durations. But of this
more fully hereafter.(Part IV, Sect. 2.)

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