354 Matter not eternal and uncauj^'

and extending ; but a substance a&uallyed, and impenetrably ext ended (f ): and

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exist there. Which shews, as has been said, that neckty of existence has as much relation to place as to tn^And therefore since matter is indifferent as to exists ^anyplace, it requires an external, or immaterial caU ^ ^determine its place, or location ; and since it could $exist at all, but in some place; it requires an irnffl^ 1 *cause to determine its existence in some place at m

And the fame kind of argument will be appli ca

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to

{hew its indifference as to being of this or anotherso'^jhaving the parts of its mass contiguous, or separated’if separated, as to having them at this or another Ut

And the fame reasoning will also shew its indiss efinl ‘.

to being in a state of rejl or motion , as to having

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another direction , this or another degree of velof

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all which an infinite variety is possible. And in ^ .

all evasions that can be thought on, this argumentthat matter is not a self-exiftent or uncaused su>

(f) Here it hath been asked, “ If we ma/ 1" that space is extended as well as body ?" ^ ^that it cannot be said to be extended in the J

that body or matter is. The idea we have of sp aC ^j e dextension in the abstract, not of a concrete e3ksubstance. And this takes off the force of the ^from a supposed parity. Upon this account iJ

chuses to call it expansion, (Book 2. chap. 15 'and we conceive it as a thing incapable of ton ^eedilatation, motion, divifebility, or separation of f _ j6Mr. Locke, Book 2. chap. 13. Sect. 12, 13 ’* -ud