5. Time to duration is as place to expansion.
Time in general is to duration 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.
