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Of Collective Ideas of Substances

§ 1. BESIDES these complex Ideas of several single Substances, as of Man, Horse, Gold, Violet, Apple, etc. the Mind hath also complex collective Ideas of Substances; which I so call, because such Ideas are made up of many particular Substances considered together, as united into one Idea, and which so joined, are looked on as one; v. g. the Idea of such a collection of Men as make an Army, though consisting of a great number of distinct Substances, is as much one Idea, as the Idea of a Man: And the great collective Idea of all Bodies whatsoever signified by the name World, is as much one Idea, as the Idea of any the least Particle of Matter in it; it sufficing, to the unity of any Idea, that it be considered as one Representation, or Picture, though made up of never so many Particulars.

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