Our complex idea of an immaterial spirit and our complex idea of body compared
I shall therefore pass over that chimerical supposition, andconsider them as collections of simple ideas in the mind, taken fromcombinations of simple ideas existing together constantly in things,of which patterns they are the supposed copies; and in thisreference of them to the existence of things, they are false ideas:-(1) When they put together simple ideas, which in the real existenceof things have no union; as when to the shape and size that existtogether in a horse, is joined in the same complex idea the power ofbarking like a dog: which three ideas, however put together into onein the mind, were never united in nature; and this, therefore, maybe called a false idea of a horse. Caius, compared to severalpersons, may be truly be said to be older and younger, stronger andweaker, &c. Some who have examined this species more accuratelycould, I believe, enumerate ten times as many pr