BOOK I PART III
may now see the advantage of quitting the di-
rect survey of this relation, in order to discover
the nature of that necessary connexion, which
makes so essential a part of it. There are hopes,
that by this means we may at last arrive at
our proposed end; though to tell the truth, this
new-discovered relation of a constant conjunc-
tion seems to advance us but very little in our
way. For it implies no more than this, that like
objects have always been placed in like rela-
tions of contiguity and succession; and it seems
evident, at least at first sight, that by this means
we can never discover any new idea, and can
only multiply, but not enlarge the objects of our
mind. It may be thought, that what we learn
not from one object, we can never learn from
a hundred, which are all of the same kind, and
are perfectly resembling in every circumstance.
As our senses shew us in one instance two