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706 generosity which is natural to man and the source of justice,' removed by supposing the influence of 'general rules,' 586.

Taste—the only judge of wit, 297; can there be a right or a wrong taste in morals, eloquence, or beauty? 541 n.

Theologians—their doctrine of a thinking substance a true atheism, and the same as Spinoza's, 240 f; their system and Spinoza's have all their absurdities in common, 243.

Thought (v. Mind, Matter)—its relation to extension, 234 f.; the materialists wrong who conjoin all thought with extension, 235; as also their antagonists who conjoin all thought with a simple and indivisible substance, 239, whether they regard it as a 'modification' or 'mode,' 243, or as an 'action' of the thinking substance, 244; can be and is caused by matter or motion, 'since everyone may perceive that the different dispositions of his body change his thoughts and sentiments,' 248; 'by comparing their ideas we find that thought and motion are different from each other, and by experience that they are constantly united,' and therefore the one is the cause of the other, 248.

Time (v. Succession)—a source of philosophic relation, 14; infinite divisibility of, 29 f.; essence of, that its parts are never coexistent. therefore composed of indivisible moments, 31 (cf. 429); idea of, derived from the succession of our perceptions of every kind, 35; no idea of time alone, 36; idea of, not derived from any particular impression, whether of sensation or reflection, but from the manner in which impressions appear, 37 (cf. 96); ideas of time or duration applied by a fiction to unchangeable objects, 37 (cf. 65); indivisible moments of, filled with some real object or existence, 39; hence no empty time, 40, 65; annihilated by assertion of coexistence of cause and effect, 76; or duration, intermediate between unity and number, and hence the source of the idea of identity, 201; relation of 'coexistence in general' distinguished from relation of 'contemporaneity in appearance to the mind,' 237; contiguity and distance in, 427 f.; produces nothing real, therefore property, being produced by time, is not any real thing in the objects, but is the offspring of the sentiments, 515.

Touch—impressions of, not source of idea of solidity, 230-1; impressions of sight and touch, source of our idea of extension and space, 235; and are the only ones which are themselves 'figured and extended,' 236 f.

Tragedy, 121.

Truth—and poetry, 121; criterion of, to be found in feeling (q.v.), 265; we cannot hope for a true, but only a satisfactory set of opinions, 272; or reason, contradiction to, consists in the disagreement of ideas considered as copies with those objects which they represent, 415; two