Be the
sensible quality what it will -- figure, or sound, or colour, it
seems alike impossible it should subsist in that which doth not
perceive it.][2]
. I give up the point for the present, reserving still
a right to retract my opinion, in case I shall hereafter discover
any false step in my progress to it.
. That is a right you cannot be denied. Figures and
extension being despatched, we proceed next to . Can a
real motion in any external body be at the same time very swift
and very slow?
. It cannot.
. Is not the motion of a body swift in a reciprocal
proportion to the time it takes up in describing any given space?
Thus a body that describes a mile in an hour moves three times
faster than it would in case it described only a mile in three
hours.
. I agree with you.
. And is not time measured by the succession of ideas
in our minds?
. It is.
. And is it not possible ideas should succeed one
another twice as fast in your mind as they do in mine, or in that
of some spirit of another kind?
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