BOOK I PART IV
capable of it; and that endeavour again arises
from our inclination to compleat an union,
which is founded on causation, and a conti-
guity of time, by attributing to the objects a
conjunction in place. But if ever reason be of
sufficient force to overcome prejudice, it is cer-
tain, that in the present case it must prevail.
For we have only this choice left, either to sup-
pose that some beings exist without any place;
or that they are figured and extended; or that
when they are incorporated with extended ob-
jects, the whole is in the whole, and the whole
in every part. The absurdity of the two last sup-
positions proves sufficiently the veracity of the
first. Nor is there any fourth opinion. For as to
the supposition of their existence in the manner
of mathematical points, it resolves itself into
the second opinion, and supposes, that several
passions may be placed in a circular figure, and