An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S26

If those ideas which are constantly joined to all others, must therefore be concluded to be the essence of those things which have constantly those ideas joined to them, and are inseparable from them; then unity is without doubt the essence of everything. For there is not any object of sensation or reflection which does not carry with it the idea of one: but the weakness of this kind of argument we have already shown sufficiently.

Que ſi les Idées qui ſont conſtamment jointes à toutes les autres, doivent paſſer dès-là pour l’eſſence des choſes auxquelles ces Idées ſe trouvent jointes, & dont elles ſont inſéparables, l’Unité doit donc être, ſans contredit, l’eſſence de chaque choſe. Car il n’y a aucun Objet de Senſation ou de Réflexion, qui n’emporte l’idée de l’unité. Mais c’eſt une ſorte de raiſonnement dont nous avons déja montré ſuffiſamment la foibleſſe.