There is however (in the current philosophy) a difference in the connexions of space with matter from those of time with matter, which I will proceed to explain.
Space is not merely an ordering of material entities so that any one entity bears certain relations to other material entities.

The occupation of space impresses a certain character on each material entity in itself.

By reason of its occupation of space matter has extension.

By reason of its extension each bit of matter is divisible into parts, and each part is a numerically distinct entity from every other such part.

Accordingly it would seem that every material entity is not really one entity.