having got the idea of succession and duration, by reflecting on the train of our own ideas, caused in us either by the natural appearances of those ideas coming constantly of themselves into our waking thoughts, or else caused by external objects successively affecting our senses; and having from the revolutions of the sun got the ideas of certain lengths of duration,-we can in our thoughts add such lengths of duration to one another, as often as we please, and apply them, so added, to durations past or to come. And this we can continue to do on, without bounds or limits, and proceed in infinitum, and apply thus the length of the annual motion of the sun to duration, supposed before the sun's or any other motion had its being, which is no more difficult or absurd, than to apply the notion I have of the moving of a shadow one hour to-day upon the sun-dial to the duration of something last night, v. g.
hau da, segidaren eta iraupenaren ideiak geure ideien kateari buruzko gogoetaren bidez hartu ditugularik, itzarrik gaudela ditugun pentsamenduetara etengabe berez etorritako ideien agerpen naturalek gure baitan eragindako katea berau, edo gure sentimenak segidan hunkitzen dituzten kanpoko objektuek eragindakoa, eta eguzkiaren biretatik zenbait iraupen luzera hartuta edukirik, gai gara geure pentsamenduetan iraupen luzera horiek bata besteari eransteko nahi adina aldiz eta, horrela erantsita, iragandako edo etorkizun diren iraupenei aplikatzeko, Eta hau eragozpenik ez mugarik gabe egin dezakegu eta in infinitum jo, eta era horretan eguzkiaren urteko higiduraren luzera eguzkiaren higiduraren zein beste edozein higiduraren aurrekotzat suposaturiko iraupenari aplika, hau ez delarik zailago edo absurduago gertatzen eguzki-erloju batean itzalak ordubetez gaur egindako higiduraz daukadan nozioa bart jazotako zerbaiten, adibidez orain inondiko higidurarik gabe dagoen kandelaren suaren iraupenari aplikatzea baino;