M. P.
Qu. Whether I had not better allow colours to exist without the mind; taking the mind for the active thing wch I call “I,” “myself”—yt seems to be distinct from the understanding[254]?
P.
The taking extension to be distinct from all other tangible & visible qualities, & to make an idea by itself, has made men take it to be without the mind.
I see no wit in any of them but Newton. The rest are meer triflers, mere Nihilarians.
The folly of the mathematicians in not judging of sensations by their senses. Reason was given us for nobler uses.
M.
Keill's filling the world with a mite[255]. This follows from the divisibility of extension ad infinitum.
Extension, or length without breadth, seems to be nothing save the number of points that lie betwixt any 2 points[256]. It seems to consist in meer proportion—meer reference of the mind.