25. As we can measure space in our thoughts where there is no body.
For supposing it were 5639 miles, or
millions of miles, from this place to the remotest body of the universe, (for being finite, it must be at a certain
distance), as we suppose it to be 5639 years from this time to the first existence of any body in the beginning of
the world;--we can, in our thoughts, apply this measure of a year to duration before the creation, or beyond the
duration of bodies or motion, as we can this measure of a mile to space beyond the utmost bodies; and by the one
measure duration, where there was no motion, as well as by the other measure space in our thoughts, where there
is no body.
