ation as place to expansion. They are so much
of those boundless oceans of eternity and immensity as is set out and
distinguished from the rest, as it were by landmarks; and so are made
use of to denote the position of FINITE real beings, in respect one to
another, in those uniform infinite oceans of duration and space. These,
rightly considered, are only ideas of determinate distances from certain
known points, fixed in distinguishable sensible things, and supposed
to keep the same distance one from another. From such points fixed in
sensible beings we reckon, and from them we measure our portions of
those infinite quantities; which, so considered, are that which we call
TIME and PLACE. For duration and space being in themselves uniform and
boundless, the order and position of things, without such known settled
points, would be lost in them; and all things would lie jumbled in an
incurable confusion.

6. Time and Place are taken for so much of either as are set out by the
Existence and Motion of Bodies.

Time and place, taken thus for determinate distinguishable portions of
those infinite abysses of space and duration, set out or supposed to be
distinguished from the rest, by marks and known boundaries, have each of
them a twofold acceptation.

FIRST, Time in general is commonly taken for so much of infinite
duration as is measured by, and co-existent with, the existence and
motions of the great bodies of the universe, as far as we know anything
of them: and in this sense time begins and ends with the frame of this
sensible world, as in these phrases before mentioned, 'Before all time,'
or, 'When time shall be no more.' Place likewise is taken sometimes for
that portion of infinite space which is possessed by and comprehended
within the material world; and is thereby distinguished from the rest of
expansion; though this may be more properly called extension than place.
Within these two are confined, and by the observable parts of them
are measured and determined, the particular time or duration, and the
particular extension and place, of all corporeal beings.

7. Sometimes for so much of either as we design by Measures taken from
the Bulk or Motion of Bodies.

SECONDLY, sometimes the word time is used in a larger sense, and is
applied to parts of that infinite duration, not that were really
distinguished and measured out by this real existence, and periodical
motions of bodies, that were appointed from the beg