BOOK I PART IV
the other are supposed to lie in the very visi-
ble body, and to be separated from each other
by the whole length of the table. This is so no-
table and so natural an illusion, that it may be
proper to consider the principles, from which it
is derived.
Though an extended object be incapable of
a conjunction in place with another, that ex-
ists without any place or extension, yet are
they susceptible of many other relations. Thus
the taste and smell of any fruit are insepara-
ble from its other qualities of colour and tan-
gibility; and whichever of them be the cause or
effect, it is certain they are always co-existent.
Nor are they only co-existent in general, but
also co-temporary in their appearance in the
mind; and it is upon the application of the ex-
tended body to our senses we perceive its par-