BOOK I PART II
Since a body interposed betwixt two others
may be supposed to be annihilated, without
producing any change upon such as lie on each
hand of it, it is easily conceived, how it may
be created anew, and yet produce as little al-
teration. Now the motion of a body has much
the same effect as its creation. The distant bod-
ies are no more affected in the one case, than in
the other. This suffices to satisfy the imagina-
tion, and proves there is no repugnance in such
a motion. Afterwards experience comes in play
to persuade us that two bodies, situated in the
manner above-described, have really such a ca-
pacity of receiving body betwixt them, and that
there is no obstacle to the conversion of the in-
visible and intangible distance into one that is
visible and tangible. However natural that con-
version may seem, we cannot be sure it is prac-
ticable, before we have had experience of it.