16. Examples.
Flame is denominated hot and light; snow, white and cold; and manna, white and sweet, from the
ideas they produce in us. Which qualities are commonly thought to be the same in those bodies that those ideas
are in us, the one the perfect resemblance of the other, as they are in a mirror, and it would by most men be judged
very extravagant if one should say otherwise. And yet he that will consider that the same fire that, at one distance
produces in us the sensation of warmth, does, at a nearer approach, produce in us the far different sensation of
pain, ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say--that this idea of warmth, which was produced in him by
the fire, is actually in the fire; and his idea of pain, which the same fire produced in him the same way, is not in
the fire. Why are whiteness and coldness in snow, and pain not, when it produces the one and the other idea in us;
and can do neither, but by the bulk, figure, number, and motion of its solid parts?
