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CHAP. V.

Of simple Ideas of divers Senses.

THe Ideas we get by more than one Sense, are of Space, or Extension, Figure, Rest, and Motion: For these make perceivable impressions, both on the Eyes and Touch; and we can receive and convey into our Minds, the Ideas of the Extension, Figure, Motion, and Rest of Bodies, both by seeing and feeling. But having occasion to speak more at large of these, in another place, I here only enumerate them.