BOOK II PART III
quent advertisements of them from the pas-
sions and senses, that however it may turn
its attention to foreign and remote objects, it
is necessitated every moment to reflect on the
present. IOt is also remarkable, that in the con-
ception of those objects, which we regard as
real and existent, we take them in their proper
order and situation, and never leap from one
object to another, which is distant from it, with-
out running over, at least in a cursory manner,
all those objects, which are interposed betwixt
them. When we reflect, therefore, on any ob-
ject distant from ourselves, we are obliged not
only to reach it at first by passing through all
the intermediate space betwixt ourselves and
the object, but also to renew our progress ev-
ery moment; being every moment recalled to
the consideration of ourselves and our present
situation. It is easily conceived, that this inter-