andshewn inconclusive. 283

^stance j or substance itself {that thing, toin which properties inhere, which weand must call substance:) if they are“stance, solidity and figure will prove a° figured substance upon us. If they are0l % properties, they are either properties of° Ur ideas, or not; if they are, then our ideasQre substance, with respect to th properties^ rt he thing in which they inhere; and there-, Qre solid, figured substances. A thing that. solidity, figure, &c. as properties belong-

to it, or predicable concerning it, muste a solid, figured thing. But that our ideas^°uld. be such, as upon this scheme theyi S monstrous. At least therefore, a^stance must be possible, of which these* te properties: for they are certainly pro-xies of something. And if it be allowedsuch properties exist now; qr that the• ■ n g exists to which they belong; they willnot only the possibility, but the adlual* l fience of matter.

XIX. Again, all geometry is conversant^° ut quantity. If there be nothing that can6 c alled quantum in nature, or without theln d; nothing to which quantity is appli-cable ;