BOOK I PART IV
our reason, which shows us the impossibility of
such an union. Being divided betwixt these op-
posite principles, we renounce neither one nor
the other, but involve the subject in such confu-
sion and obscurity, that we no longer perceive
the opposition. We suppose, that the taste ex-
ists within the circumference of the body, but
in such a manner, that it fills the whole without
extension, and exists entire in every part with-
out separation. In short, we use in our most
familiar way of thinking, that scholastic prin-
ciple, which, when crudely proposed, appears
so shocking, ofTotum in Toto&Tolum in qualibet
Parte: Which is much the same, as if we should
say, that a thing is in a certain place, and yet is
not there.
All this absurdity proceeds from our endeav-
ouring to bestow a place on what is utterly in-