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In like manner do gold and silver become the common measures of exchange, and are esteemed sufficient payment for what is of a hundred times their value. But when along with this, the objects, that cause pleasure or pain, acquire a relation to ourselves or others; they still continue to excite desire and aversion, grief and joy: But cause, at the same time, the indirect passions of pride or humility, love or hatred, which in this case have a double relation of impressions and ideas to the pain or pleasure. If we were to attribute succession to time itself, we should be obliged to cogitate another time, in which this succession would be possible. The capacity of the mind is not infinite; consequently no idea of extension or duration consists of an infinite number of parts or inferior ideas, but of a finite number, and these simple and indivisible: It is therefore possible for space and time to exist conformable to this idea: And if it be possible, it is certain they actually do exist conformable to it; since their infinite divisibility is utterly impossible and contradictory. It is true, those sentiments, from interest and morals, are apt to be confounded, and naturally run into one another.