BOOK I PART IV
that the sensation, motion, and resistance are
any ways resembling.
Secondly, The impressions of touch are sim-
ple impressions, except when considered with
regard to their extension; which makes nothing
to the present purpose: And from this simplic-
ity I infer, that they neither represent solidity,
nor any real object. For let us put two cases,
viz. that of a man, who presses a stone, or
any solid body, with his hand, and that of two
stones, which press each other; it will readily
be allowed, that these two cases are not in ev-
ery respect alike, but that in the former there is
conjoined with the solidity, a feeling or sensa-
tion, of which there is no appearance in the lat-
ter. In order, therefore, to make these two cases
alike, it is necessary to remove some part of the
impression, which the man feels by his hand, or