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solid, extended, divisible, figured substance;or hath the essential properties of the wholeof which it is a part, as much as the wholehath. For in any indivisible of matter, sup-posing such were possible, we can conceiveno change possible: because it would implya contradiction. It could not be changed insolidity or extension; that would be to changeit in quantity, which could only be effectedby adding parts to it, which is no change initself; or by taking parts from it, which bysupposition it hath not. It could not bechanged in figure or dimensions, without achange of the position of parts, which it hathnot. If it should be said, that it might bechanged from rest to motion, or from mo-tion to rest, this is no change of this indivi-sible considered alone, but a change of itconsidered with relation to something else;to wit, other parts, the distance betweenwhich and it is changed. Even in absolutemotion nothing is effected but a determinati^ 11of the inactivity, or resistance, to one p ar£more than another, which is no intrinsic mn-tation of substance or substantial proper-ties (f). In short, this indivisible could ufl-

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(f) In absolute or real motion, the force, moment otresistance, is only determined to one side, I think, s