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— 123 —
Solidity fills Space.
§2. This is the
Idea belongs to Body, whereby
we conceive it
to
fill space. The
Idea of which filling of
space, is, That where we
imagine any space taken up by a solid Substance, we conceive
it so
to possess it, that it excludes all other solid Substances; and, will
for
ever hinder any two other Bodies, that move towards one another
in a strait Line, from
coming to touch one another, unless it removes
from between them in a Line, not
parallel to that which they move
in. This
Idea of it the Bodies,
which we ordinarily handle, sufficient-
ly furnish us with.
Locke Hum II, 4, §2, p. 123