Sickness or Pain is in Manna." (137-138).
This means that insofar as the latter qualities (light, heat, whiteness or coldness) exist as ideas, they cease to exist as ideas once the individual as perceiver, taster, smeller and hearer is removed from the equation. With the individual's perceptions or sensations eliminated, the qualities of the snow are reduced to its bulk, figure and motion. These latter qualities exist in the snow, or in any solid object in the world, whether or not the individual is present to see, taste, smell, or hear the object.
The other qualities---light, heat, whiteness or coldness---are ideas which are not inherent in the snow but which are rather "Effects of its Operations on us, and are no where when we feel them not" (138).
As obvious as this may be, and as heartily as everyone might agree with the author after he makes his argument so sim
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