Book,  Chapter

  1     II,  X     |           of beings, as existence, duration, and number, which almost
  2     II,  XIII  |         space, more than he can to duration; or by thinking hope to
  3     II,  XIV   |                Chapter XIV~Idea of Duration and its Simple Modes ~1.
  4     II,  XIV   |           and its Simple Modes ~1. Duration is fleeting extension. There
  5     II,  XIV   |           succession. This we call duration; the simple modes whereof
  6     II,  XIV   |       itself not to be discovered. Duration, time, and eternity, are,
  7     II,  XIV   |          and origin of the idea of duration. To understand time and
  8     II,  XIV   |         what idea it is we have of duration, and how we came by it.
  9     II,  XIV   |         our minds, is that we call duration. For whilst we are thinking,
 10     II,  XIV   |            ideas in our minds, the duration of ourselves, or any such
 11     II,  XIV   |           notion of succession and duration from this original, viz.
 12     II,  XIV   |           we have no perception of duration but by considering the train
 13     II,  XIV   |          ceases, our perception of duration ceases with it; which every
 14     II,  XIV   |          month or a year; of which duration of things, while he sleeps
 15     II,  XIV   |        account a good part of that duration, and thinks that time shorter
 16     II,  XIV   |        unites the distant parts of duration, it is because during that
 17     II,  XIV   |          such dreaming, a sense of duration, and of the length of it.
 18     II,  XIV   |          men derive their ideas of duration from their reflections on
 19     II,  XIV   |         they can have no notion of duration, whatever may happen in
 20     II,  XIV   |          the world.~5. The idea of duration applicable to things whilst
 21     II,  XIV   |          got the notion or idea of duration, he can apply that notion
 22     II,  XIV   |        perception of the length of duration which passed whilst he slept
 23     II,  XIV   |          found the length of their duration to be in appearance regular
 24     II,  XIV   |        allowance for the length of duration whilst he slept. But if
 25     II,  XIV   |           one continued sleep, the duration of that twenty-four hours
 26     II,  XIV   |           a stroke. Such a part of duration as this, wherein we perceive
 27     II,  XIV   |            in their succession the duration of but one idea; or else
 28     II,  XIV   |         the idea of succession and duration, without which we should
 29     II,  XIV   |      furnishes us with the idea of duration; whereof motion no otherwise
 30     II,  XIV   |          an idea of succession and duration, by the train of other ideas
 31     II,  XIV   |           as well have the idea of duration were there no sense of motion
 32     II,  XIV   |         motion at all.~17. Time is duration set out by measures. Having
 33     II,  XIV   |        Having thus got the idea of duration, the next thing natural
 34     II,  XIV   |        some measure of this common duration, whereby it might judge
 35     II,  XIV   |     useless. This consideration of duration, as set out by certain periods,
 36     II,  XIV   |         time must divide its whole duration into equal periods. In the
 37     II,  XIV   |            But in the measuring of duration this cannot be done, because
 38     II,  XIV   |         nothing being a measure of duration but duration, as nothing
 39     II,  XIV   |            measure of duration but duration, as nothing is of extension
 40     II,  XIV   |     standing, unvarying measure of duration, which consists in a constant
 41     II,  XIV   |            the whole length of its duration into apparently equal portions,
 42     II,  XIV   |          periods. What portions of duration are not distinguished, or
 43     II,  XIV   |          use of for the measure of duration. But the distinction of
 44     II,  XIV   |            thought that motion and duration were the measure one of
 45     II,  XIV   |        upon any mention of time or duration presently to think on, all
 46     II,  XIV   |    seemingly equidistant spaces of duration, if constant and universally
 47     II,  XIV   |       measure out the distances of duration to all that could observe
 48     II,  XIV   |            by.~21. No two parts of duration can be certainly known to
 49     II,  XIV   |            to measure the parts of duration exactly) as if they could
 50     II,  XIV   |      carefully distinguish betwixt duration itself, and the measures
 51     II,  XIV   |            to judge of its length. Duration, in itself, is to be considered
 52     II,  XIV   |            or periods are equal in duration one to another; for two
 53     II,  XIV   |          two successive lengths of duration, however measured, can never
 54     II,  XIV   |            for an exact measure of duration, has, as I said, been found
 55     II,  XIV   |         appearances; the notion of duration still remaining clear, though
 56     II,  XIV   |        conduce to the measuring of duration, than as it constantly brings
 57     II,  XIV   |          not necessary measures of duration. Minutes, hours, days, and
 58     II,  XIV   |          more necessary to time or duration, than inches, feet, yards,
 59     II,  XIV   |           ideas of such lengths of duration in our minds, which we apply
 60     II,  XIV   |          others, the length of any duration; though at the same time
 61     II,  XIV   |            all alter the notion of duration, which is the thing to be
 62     II,  XIV   |      measure of time applicable to duration before time. The mind having
 63     II,  XIV   |          can apply that measure to duration wherein that measure itself
 64     II,  XIV   |           it doth now. The idea of duration equal to an annual revolution
 65     II,  XIV   |      applicable in our thoughts to duration, where no sun or motion
 66     II,  XIV   |         applied in our thoughts to duration, where no sun or motion
 67     II,  XIV   |          this measure of a year to duration before the creation, or
 68     II,  XIV   |            creation, or beyond the duration of bodies or motion, as
 69     II,  XIV   |             and by the one measure duration, where there was no motion,
 70     II,  XIV   |         world to be finite both in duration and extension. But it being
 71     II,  XIV   |          motion, though not of all duration, and so may come to a step
 72     II,  XIV   |         utmost bounds of space and duration being beyond the reach of
 73     II,  XIV   |         the idea of succession and duration, by reflecting on the train
 74     II,  XIV   |        ideas of certain lengths of duration,—we can in our thoughts
 75     II,  XIV   |       thoughts add such lengths of duration to one another, as often
 76     II,  XIV   |        annual motion of the sun to duration, supposed before the sun’
 77     II,  XIV   |           upon the sun-dial to the duration of something last night,
 78     II,  XIV   |           is as impossible for the duration of that flame for an hour
 79     II,  XIV   |       shall be, as for any part of duration, that was before the beginning
 80     II,  XIV   |         measure in my thoughts the duration of that candle-light last
 81     II,  XIV   |           last night, as I can the duration of anything that does now
 82     II,  XIV   |        lasted.~28. Our measures of duration dependent on our ideas.
 83     II,  XIV   |         apply it in my thoughts to duration antecedent to all manner
 84     II,  XIV   |    yesterday: the measuring of any duration by some motion depending
 85     II,  XIV   |       motion, or other interval of duration, in my mind, and applying
 86     II,  XIV   |           and applying that to the duration of the thing I would measure.~
 87     II,  XIV   |           I would measure.~29. The duration of anything need not be
 88     II,  XIV   |          that some men imagine the duration of the world, from its first
 89     II,  XIV   |         old, or more; which longer duration of the world, according
 90     II,  XIV   |           may as well conceive the duration of 50,000 years as 5639.
 91     II,  XIV   |         that, to the measuring the duration of anything by time, it
 92     II,  XIV   |          can in our minds apply to duration, with which the motion or
 93     II,  XIV   |        co-existed.~30. Infinity in duration. For, as in the history
 94     II,  XIV   |        barely by thinking that the duration of light before the sun
 95     II,  XIV   |         For, if I can but consider duration equal to one minute, before
 96     II,  XIV   |           infinitum, and suppose a duration exceeding as many such periods
 97     II,  XIV   |             Origin of our ideas of duration, and of the measures of
 98     II,  XIV   |     sensation, we got the ideas of duration, and the measures of it.~
 99     II,  XIV   |     succession, we get the idea of duration.~Thirdly, by sensation observing
100     II,  XIV   |     certain lengths or measures of duration, as minutes, hours, days,
101     II,  XIV   |          ideas of stated length of duration, in our minds, as often
102     II,  XIV   |             we can come to imagine duration, where nothing does really
103     II,  XIV   |    eternity, as the future eternal duration of our souls, as well as
104     II,  XIV   |   considering any part of infinite duration, as set out by periodical
105     II,  XV    |                Chapter XV~Ideas of Duration and Expansion, considered
106     II,  XV    |        considerations of space and duration, yet, they being ideas of
107     II,  XV    |          these (viz. expansion and duration) the mind has this common
108     II,  XV    |            where He is not.~3. Nor duration by motion. Just so is it
109     II,  XV    |           motion. Just so is it in duration. The mind having got the
110     II,  XV    |          the idea of any length of duration, can double, multiply, and
111     II,  XV    |       admits, that, though we make duration boundless, as certainly
112     II,  XV    |         more easily admit infinite duration than infinite expansion.
113     II,  XV    |         not to ascribe infinity to duration; but it is with more doubting
114     II,  XV    |       seems to me to be this,—That duration and extension being used
115     II,  XV    |           conceive in God infinite duration, and we cannot avoid doing
116     II,  XV    |            existing in it. Whereas duration, antecedent to all body,
117     II,  XV    |      occasion to think by the name duration, that the continuation of
118     II,  XV    |     further meditation.~5. Time to duration is as place to expansion.
119     II,  XV    |   expansion. Time in general is to duration as place to expansion. They
120     II,  XV    |         uniform infinite oceans of duration and space. These, rightly
121     II,  XV    |           call time and place. For duration and space being in themselves
122     II,  XV    |      infinite abysses of space and duration, set out or supposed to
123     II,  XV    |            for so much of infinite duration as is measured by, and co-existent
124     II,  XV    |             the particular time or duration, and the particular extension
125     II,  XV    |          to parts of that infinite duration, not that were really distinguished
126     II,  XV    |           of that infinite uniform duration, which we upon any occasion
127     II,  XV    |            of that undistinguished duration as we suppose equal to,
128     II,  XV    |     boundless invariable oceans of duration and expansion, which comprehend
129     II,  XV    |         the idea of the particular duration of anything is, an idea
130     II,  XV    |           that portion of infinite duration which passes during the
131     II,  XV    |          the idea of that space of duration which passed between some
132     II,  XV    |          known and fixed period of duration, and the being of that thing.
133     II,  XV    |           fixed points of space or duration, as that it was in the middle
134     II,  XV    |       certain lengths of space and duration,—as inches, feet, miles,
135     II,  XV    |    extension, and all the parts of duration are duration. There is one
136     II,  XV    |          the parts of duration are duration. There is one thing more
137     II,  XV    |       thing more wherein space and duration have a great conformity,
138     II,  XV    |       small a part of extension or duration as excluded divisibility,
139     II,  XV    |    enlarged ideas of extension and duration. But, since the mind is
140     II,  XV    |          hours, days, and years in duration);—the mind makes use, I
141     II,  XV    |       division, either of space or duration, when the idea under consideration
142     II,  XV    |           of matter. Every part of duration is duration too; and every
143     II,  XV    |          Every part of duration is duration too; and every part of extension
144     II,  XV    |           of space, extension, and duration are made up, and into which
145     II,  XV    |     resolved. Such a small part in duration may be called a moment,
146     II,  XV    |         inseparable. Expansion and duration have this further agreement,
147     II,  XV    |        which we call rest too.~11. Duration is as a line, expansion
148     II,  XV    |        breadth, and thickness; but duration is but as it were the length
149     II,  XV    |          negation of all manner of duration. And therefore, what spirits
150     II,  XV    |       whilst it remains there.~12. Duration has never two parts together,
151     II,  XV    |    together, expansion altogether. Duration, and time which is a part
152     II,  XV    |      though we cannot conceive any duration without succession, nor
153     II,  XV    |         than the present moment of duration; yet we can conceive the
154     II,  XV    |           can conceive the eternal duration of the Almighty far different
155     II,  XV    |           infinite. God’s infinite duration, being accompanied with
156     II,  XV    |            conclude: expansion and duration do mutually embrace and
157     II,  XV    |       space being in every part of duration, and every part of duration
158     II,  XV    |        duration, and every part of duration in every part of expansion.
159     II,  XVI   |      principally are expansion and duration; and our idea of infinity,
160     II,  XVI   |         ideas of imagined parts of duration and expansion, with the
161     II,  XVII  |    intention, attributed to space, duration, and number. He that would
162     II,  XVII  |            are the ideas of space, duration, and number, which we have
163     II,  XVII  |        primarily in respect to his duration and ubiquity; and, I think,
164     II,  XVII  |     modifications of expansion and duration, the next thing to be considered,
165     II,  XVII  |        whereby we measure time and duration, as hours, days, and years,
166     II,  XVII  |    actually infinite.~5. And so of duration. As, by the power we find
167     II,  XVII  |          the idea of any length of duration we have in our minds, with
168     II,  XVII  |         were any real being, whose duration has been eternal. And as
169     II,  XVII  |         well as those of space and duration; since they may be as easily,
170     II,  XVII  |       largest idea of extension or duration that I at present have,
171     II,  XVII  |           their senses; but space, duration, and number, being capable
172     II,  XVII  |     infinite space, or an infinite duration. For, as our idea of infinity
173     II,  XVII  |            our minds of any space, duration, or number, let them be
174     II,  XVII  |            of an infinite space or duration, that idea is very obscure
175     II,  XVII  |            about infinite space or duration, &c. Because the parts of
176     II,  XVII  |             For, even in space and duration, when the mind pursues the
177     II,  XVII  |          known lengths of space or duration, the clearest idea it can
178     II,  XVII  |           contrasted with those of duration and expansion. It will,
179     II,  XVII  |            by us infinite, whereas duration and extension are apt to
180     II,  XVII  |         conceive. But in space and duration it is otherwise. For in
181     II,  XVII  |            it is otherwise. For in duration we consider it as if this
182     II,  XVII  |        other assignable portion of duration past, with a prospect of
183     II,  XVII  |        together, are that infinite duration we call Eternity: which,
184     II,  XVII  |          the infinity of space and duration, we only use addition of
185     II,  XVII  |          the infinity of space and duration, which power leaves always
186     II,  XVII  |         positive ideas of infinite duration and space. It would, I think,
187     II,  XVII  |      positive idea of any space or duration which is not made up of,
188     II,  XVII  |          infinite idea of space or duration must needs be made up of
189     II,  XVII  |         Nor is it, when applied to duration, the bare negation of existence,
190     II,  XVII  |     eternal, a parte ante, or of a duration without a beginning, is
191     II,  XVII  |         think of infinite space or duration, we at first step usually
192     II,  XVII  |         positive ideas of space or duration. But what still remains
193     II,  XVII  |            of an infinite space or duration, who says it is larger than
194     II,  XVII  |          larger than the extent or duration of ten, one hundred, one
195     II,  XVII  |       positive idea of an infinite duration. I ask those who say they
196     II,  XVII  |    eternity, whether their idea of duration includes in it succession,
197     II,  XVII  |      difference of their notion of duration, when applied to an eternal
198     II,  XVII  |            the notion they have of duration forces them to conceive,
199     II,  XVII  |        conceive, that whatever has duration, is of a longer continuance
200     II,  XVII  |          positive idea of infinite duration; there being nothing more
201     II,  XVII  |           inconceivable to me than duration without succession. Besides,
202     II,  XVII  |       separate succession from any duration whatsoever, our idea of
203     II,  XVII  |           succession of moments of duration wherein anything does exist;
204     II,  XVII  |           such an idea of infinite duration I am sure I have. But this
205     II,  XVII  |          it to, let it be space or duration; and possibly he wearies
206     II,  XVII  |        difference between infinite duration and infinite space, that
207     II,  XVII  |           the sun, is necessary to duration, though duration used to
208     II,  XVII  |      necessary to duration, though duration used to be measured by it.
209     II,  XVII  |           have an idea of infinite duration. And why should we think
210     II,  XVII  |       clear an idea of an infinite duration to come, as we have of infinite
211     II,  XVII  |             as we have of infinite duration past? Though I suppose nobody
212     II,  XVII  |         has existed in that future duration. Nor is it possible to join
213     II,  XVII  |            join our idea of future duration with present or past existence,
214     II,  XVII  |          clearer ideas of infinite duration than of infinite space,
215     II,  XVII  |  omnipresence, as well as infinite duration by his eternal existence,
216     II,  XVII  |      infinite space as of infinite duration; though neither of them,
217     II,  XVII  |           idea of infinite, either duration or space, he could add two
218     II,  XVII  |        infinity,—whether of space, duration, or divisibility, have been
219     II,  XVII  |       dispute of infinite space or duration, as if they had as complete
220     II,  XVII  |            on the consideration of duration, space, and number, and
221     II,  XVIII |        ideas, viz. those of unity, duration, and motion, &c., above
222     II,  XXI   |            our ideas of extension, duration, and number, do they not
223     II,  XXI   |         which if we add Existence, Duration, Number, which belong both
224     II,  XXIII |            The ideas of existence, duration, and mobility, are common
225     II,  XXIII |         the ideas of existence and duration; of knowledge and power;
226     II,  XXIII |          infinite; and also of the duration of existence, without beginning
227     II,  XXIII |            their knowledge, power, duration, happiness, &c. For that
228     II,  XXVI  |          only the relation of that duration to some other, and mean
229     II,  XXVI  |            more but this, That the duration of her existence was equal
230     II,  XXVI  |       equal to sixty-nine, and the duration of her government to forty-five
231     II,  XXVI  |       means this, That, taking the duration from our Saviour’s time
232     II,  XXVI  |        from the period of a longer duration, from which we measure,
233     II,  XXVI  |         has to a certain length of duration, whereof we have the idea
234     II,  XXVI  |           the idea of the ordinary duration of a man to be seventy years,
235     II,  XXVI  |          him old, we mean that his duration is run out almost to the
236     II,  XXVI  |    comparing the particular age or duration of this or that man, to
237     II,  XXVI  |           man, to the idea of that duration which we have in our minds,
238     II,  XXVI  |          age to different ideas of duration, which are settled in our
239     II,  XXVI  |         the several parts of their duration; and, by the relation they
240     II,  XXVI  |           and in London. But as in duration, so in extension and bulk,
241     II,  XXVII |          of the action of its past duration, may be wholly stripped
242     II,  XXVII |         has existed in a continued duration more than one instant, and
243     II,  XXVII |            bounds to be set to its duration; and may be the same self,
244     II,  XXVIII| punishments of infinite weight and duration in another life; for nobody
245     II,  XXIX  |           there is no part of that duration which is not clearly contained
246     II,  XXIX  |           may have a clear idea of duration; he may also have a clear
247     II,  XXIX  |          of a very great length of duration; he may also have a clear
248     II,  XXIX  |         include in his idea of any duration, let it be as great as it
249     II,  XXIX  |         whole extent together of a duration, where he supposes no end,
250     II,  XXIX  |           the bounds of that large duration he represents to his own
251    III,  V     |            give them their lasting duration. For, the connexion between
252    III,  VI    |          to whom we attribute both duration and all those other ideas
253    III,  VI    |           not capable of a lasting duration, as substances which are
254     IV,  IV    |          it the hope of an eternal duration, than the fashion of a man’