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.
