And it is this: because intense heat is nothing else
but a particular kind of painful sensation; and pain cannot exist
but in a perceiving being; it follows that no intense heat can
really exist in an unperceiving corporeal substance. But this is
no reason wh' we should deny heat in an inferior degree to exist
in such a substance.
. But how shall we be able to discern those degrees of
heat which exist only in the mind from those which exist without
it?
. That is no difficult matter. You know the least pain
cannot exist unperceived; whatever, therefore, degree of heat is
a pain exists only in the mind. But, as for all other degrees of
heat, nothing obliges us to think the same of them.
. I think you granted before that no unperceiving
being was capable of pleasure, any more than of pain.
. I did. {178}
. And is not warmth, or a more gentle degree of heat
than what causes uneasiness, a pleasure?
. What then?
. Consequently, it cannot exist without the mind in an
unperceiving substance, or body.
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