BOOK I PART III
alone has not that effect, but must either dis-
cover or produce something new, which is the
source of that idea. Did the repetition neither
discover nor produce anything new, our ideas
might be multiplyed by it, but would not be en-
larged above what they are upon the observa-
tion of one single instance. Every enlargement,
therefore, (such as the idea of power or con-
nexion) which arises from the multiplicity of
similar instances, is copyed from some effects
of the multiplicity, and will be perfectly under-
stood by understanding these effects. Wher-
ever we find anything new to be discovered
or produced by the repetition, there we must
place the power, and must never look for it in
any other object.
But it is evident, in the first place, that the
repetition of like objects in like relations of suc-