nation, and challenge him to try the strength of his Intellectuals, whether he does not clearly perceive the thing to be so as I have defined, and that two equal Extensions, adequately occupying the very same Ubi, be not twice as great as either of them alone, and that they are not closed with the same Terms as the Imagination falsely suggests, but only with equal.
Nor is there any need to heap up more Words for the solving this first Difficulty; whenas what has been briefly said already abundantly sufficeth for the penetrating their understanding who are pre-possest with no Prejudice; but for the piercing of theirs who are blinded with Prejudices, infinite will not suffice.
SECT. XXIII.
II.LET us now try if we can dispatch the second Difficulty with the like success, and see if it be not wholly to be ascribed to Imagination, that an Indiscerpible extension seems to involve in it any contradiction, as if there could be no Extension which has not parts real and properly so called into which it may be actually divided. viz. for this reason, that that only is extended which has partes extra partes, which being substantial, may be separated one from another, and thus separate subsist; this is the summary Account of this difficulty, which nothing but corrupt Imagination supporteth.
Now the first Source or Fountain of this Errour of the Nullibists, is this, that they make every thing that is extended the Object of the Imagination, and every Object of the Imagination corporeal. The latter whereof undoubtedly is true, if it be taken in a right Sense, namely, if they understand such a perception as is either simply and adequately drawn from external Objects; or by increasing, diminishing, transposing, or transforming of parts (as in Chimæra's and Hippocentaur's) is composed of the same. I acknowledge all these Ideas, as they were some-
