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# Title: Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 52)
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148
Of the Principles
PaTLI
Spirit, it bcins cridene, that Motion, as
Well as all ocher Ideas, is pertectly Tnert.
vid. Sect. XXV. Hlence, to endearour
eo explain the production ot Colours,
Sounds, eoc. br Figure, Mocion, Mag
nitude and the like, mult necas bc la-
bour in rain. And accordingly, Wve sec
chc Accempes OF chac Kind, arc nOL aC
all latistactorr. Which may be laid, in
General, ot chose Instances, Whereim onc
Idca or Oualiey is allignd for the C’ ausc
Ot another. Inced not lay, hou mans
Fsypotheses and Speculations are lete Out,
and how much the Cudy ot NTacurc iS
Abridscd. by chis Docrinc.
5 103. The great Mechanical Princi
ple non in Vogue is dttraction. Thac
2 Stone FaIls to the Farch, or the Sca
Tvells corrards theMoon, may to lome
appear sufticiently explain dcherebr. But
horr arc e Enlisten d by beins told
this is donc by AtraCtION: IS IL thac,
thac Word lignities the manner ot che
Pendener, and thac it is br the mutual
drarins ot Bodics, instead ot cheir bc-
ins impelld or procruded towards cach
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