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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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184. Of the Principles
Part I.
accordins to ehiem an Inch docs noc
barely concain an intinite number et
Pares, buc an Intinier ot an Intinier ot an
Tnfinier ad infinitum et ParES. Ochersthere
bc irho hold, all orders ot Infinitelimals
belorche tirst co benochins ac all, chinte-
ing ic, wich soodrealou, Ablurd, t0
imagine chere is aur politire Ouancitr
Or Parc ot Extension, Wvhichu, tho mul-
tiplred Infinicelr, can never equal che
(mallest siven Extension. And ret on
the ocher hand, ic scems no lels AbTurd,
to chinktheSquare, CubC, Or Ocher POW-
er ot a politire, real ROOL, Mou d it sCIE
De nochins ac all; Wrhich cher, Wwho
hola InfinicesimalsoFche Frst Order, de-
urins allot the subsequene Orders; arc
Obliged EO MAIMEAIM.
S T3T. Ilare re noc, cheretore, rea-
son to conclude, ther arc both in thc
Wrone, and thac therc is in effect no
such ching as Pares intinitely Small, or
au infinite number ot Parrs contam d in
any Finice Ouantur: Buc rouillar, chat
it this Doctrine obcains, it Wwill follow,
the rery Foundations ot Cicometer arc
destroyd: