Mem. To enquire diligently into that strange mistery, [pg 030] viz. How it is that I can cast about, think of this or that man, place, action, wn nothing appears to introduce them into my thoughts, wn they have no perceivable connexion with the ideas suggested by my senses at the present?
I.
'Tis not to be imagin'd wt a marvellous emptiness & scarcity of ideas that man shall descry who will lay aside all use of words in his meditations.
M.
Incongruous in Locke to fancy we want a sense proper to see substances with.
I.
Locke owns that abstract ideas were made in order to naming.
M.
The common errour of the opticians, that we judge of distance by angles[102], strengthens men in their prejudice that they see things without and distant from their mind.
E.