Because every substance, being as apt, by the powers we observe in it, to change some sensible qualities in other subjects, as it is to produce in us those simple ideas which we receive immediately from it, does, by those new sensible qualities introduced into other subjects, discover to us those powers which do thereby mediately affect our senses, as regularly as its sensible qualities do it immediately: v.
Zeren, substantzia orok, ikusten dizkiogun ahalen bidez, hala beste subjektu batzuetan koalitate sentigarriak aldatzeko, nola gure baitan hartatik zuzenean hartzen ditugun ideia bakunak eragiteko gai denez, beste subjektu batzuetan sarturiko koalitate sentigarri berri horien bidez agirian jartzen dizkigu era horretan gure sentimenei zeharka eragiten dizkien ahal horiek, haren koalitate sentigarriek zuzenean eragiten dizkien normaltasun beraz eragin ere;