5. Relations of place and extension.
The relation also that things have to one another in their places and distances
is very obvious to observe; as above, below, a mile distant from Charing-cross, in England, and in London. But as
in duration, so in extension and bulk, there are some ideas that are relative which we signify by names that are
thought positive; as great and little are truly relations. For here also, having, by observation, settled in our minds
the ideas of the bigness of several species of things from those we have been most accustomed to, we make them
as it were the standards, whereby to denominate the bulk of others. Thus we call a great apple, such a one as is
bigger than the ordinary sort of those we have been used to; and a little horse, such a one as comes not up to the
size of that idea which we have in our minds to belong ordinarily to horses; and that will be a great horse to a
Welchman, which is but a little one to a Fleming; they two having, from the different breed of their countries,
taken several-sized ideas to which they compare, and in relation to which they denominate their great and their
little.