BOOK I PART IV
ticular taste and smell. These relations, then, of
causation, and contiguity in the time of their
appearance, betwixt the extended object and
the quality, which exists without any particu-
lar place, must have such an effect on the mind,
that upon the appearance of one it will imme-
diately turn its thought to the conception of
the other. Nor is this all. We not only turn
our thought from one to the other upon ac-
count of their relation, but likewise endeavour
to give them a new relation, viz. that of acon-
junction in place, that we may render the transi-
tion more easy and natural. For it is a quality,
which I shall often have occasion to remark in
human nature, and shall explain more fully in
its proper place, that when objects are united
by any relation, we have a strong propensity
to add some new relation to them, in order
to compleat the union. In our arrangement of