and shewn inconclusive. 279

Percipi, (See D. B.’s Principles, Sect. 132*as also his Opticks.) A part of a perception^ot perceived, is a contradiction indeed j beinga Part of it that is no part oi it. Consequentlya Part less than the minimum senjibile (fee a-Sect. 127.) is no part of it, or nothing,therefore in the idea of a solid inch of mat-ter > v. g. there is no part that might be ex-P re ffed by this number j ,000,0005000,000Jtl the denominator, having unit for its mi-grator, (or we may make the number great-e h for those who have very good eyes) sucha Part being less than the minimum senjibile:° r such a part i^ nothing at all. But if thereno such part; or if the million-millionthPart is precisely nothing; the 'whole idea isthade up of a million of million of no ideas:° r the whole idea is no idea. For undoubt-e< %, a million or any number of nothings,^11 never make something: nor will any^titnber of negations of an idea, ever makea re al idea. Two, ten, a hundred, &c. ne~Scions of a thing, will never amount to theth njg itself. Thus unless a real, solid, fgur-substance, were at least possible to existWithout the mind, such a part of which"^uld be a real part, of the same natureT 4 with