M.
I take not away substances. I ought not to be accused of discarding substance out of the reasonable world[84]. I onely reject the philosophic sense (wch in effect is no sense) of the word substance. Ask a man not tainted with their jargon wt he means by corporeal substance, or the substance of body. He shall answer, bulk, solidity, and such like sensible qualitys. These I retain. The philosophic nec quid, nec quantum, nec quale, whereof I have no idea, I discard; if a man may be said to discard that which never had any being, was never so much as imagin'd or conceiv'd.
M.
In short, be not angry. You lose nothing, whether real or chimerical. Wtever you can in any wise conceive or imagine, be it never so wild, so extravagant, & absurd, much good may it do you. You may enjoy it for me. I'll never deprive you of it.
N. B. I am more for reality than any other philosophers[85]. They make a thousand doubts, & know not certainly but we may be deceiv'd. I assert the direct contrary.
A line in the sense of mathematicians is not meer distance. This evident in that there are curve lines.
Curves perfectly incomprehensible, inexplicable, absurd, except we allow points.
I.