But this I think I may say, that I cannot (and I would be glad any one would make intelligible that he did) conceive how bodies without us can any ways affect our senses, but by the immediate contact of the sensible bodies themselves, as in tasting and feeling, or the impulse of some sensible particles coming from them, as in seeing, hearing, and smelling;
Baina uste dut esan dezakedala ezin dudala ulertu (eta ulergarri egin dezakeenak egitea nahiko nuke) gugandik kanpoko gorputzek nolatan ukan dezaketen eragina gure sentimenetan, honelaxe ez bada, alegia, gorputzen euren arartegabeko ukitzearen bidez, dastamenean eta ukimenean bezala, edo euretatik etorritako zenbait atal sentigarriren bulkadaz, ikusmen, entzumen eta usaimenean gertatzen den moduan;