BOOK I PART IV
bodies we never fail to place such as are resem-
bling, in contiguity to each other, or at least in
correspondent points of view: Why? but be-
cause we feel a satisfaction in joining the re-
lation of contiguity to that of resemblance, or
the resemblance of situation to that of quali-
ties. The effects this propensity have been (Sect.
2, towards the end.) already observed in that
resemblance, which we so readily suppose be-
twixt particular impressions and their external
causes. But we shall not find a more evident ef-
fect of it, than in the present instance, where
from the relations of causation and contigu-
ity in time betwixt two objects, we feign like-
wise that of a conjunction in place, in order to
strengthen the connexion.
But whatever confused notions we may form
of an union in place betwixt an extended body,