 In a number of texts, including De Gravitatione, the famous discussion of space and time in the Scholium to the Principia, and the discussion of God in the General Scholium, Newton made his generally Morean attitudes perfectly clear. He rejected the Cartesian identification of extension and matter, arguing that space itself exists independently of material objects (and their relations), and he contended that all entities, including the human mind and even the divine being, are extended in the sense that they have spatial location, even if they are extended in ways that distinguish them from ordinary material  bodies.[14]  In Newton’s hands, space becomes a fundamental concept of natural philosophy, an attitude that is foreign to Cartesians. As Newton puts it in a famous passage from De Gravitatione: