| Did our perceptions either inhere in something simple and individual, or did the mind perceive some real connexion among them, there would be no difficulty in the case. |
| For my part, I must plead the privilege of a sceptic, and confess, that this difficulty is too hard for my understanding. |
| I pretend not, however, to pronounce. |
| it absolutely insuperable. |
| Others, perhaps, or myself, upon more mature reflections, may discover some hypothesis, that will reconcile those contradictions. |
| I shall also take this opportunity of confessing two other errors of less importance, which more mature reflection has discovered to me in my reasoning. |
| The first may be found in Vol. I. page 106. where I say, that the distance betwixt two bodies is known, among other things, by the angles, which the rays of light flowing from the bodies make with each other. |
| It is certain, that these angles are not known to the mind, and consequently can never discover the distance. |
| The second error may be found in Vol. I. page 144 where I say, that two ideas of the same object can only be different by their different degrees of force and vivacity. |
| I believe there are other differences among ideas, which cannot properly be comprehended under these terms. |
| Had I said, that two ideas of the same object can only be different by their different feeling, I should have been nearer the truth. |