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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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Philotorhicat Principler
OF ehe Planets cowards ie must be Cuf-
ciene c0 destroy ehis FHect; and besides,
co mate ehem move in Flliprick Orbits,
wrtrich cannoe be brouohe about, untels
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co.lly as the squares ot che Diltances trom
che Pocus, itrich is the sum ot Leibnit ZS
Doctrine uxon chis Flead.
5 XXV. Buc erenchis Acconne ot che
Celestial Mocions is Matend 
insutticiene Por thele ReaTOnS. 1. The Co.
mets, as Wras Formerty Caid, have cheie
Orbirs, lome ot them very oblique, nay,
somecimes ae riohe Anoles wich che 20.
diak, and lomerimes ehe Courses ot chele
Comets are quire concrary to chac oF che
Planets: Nour che Comets describine aboue
che sun dreas, proportional co the cimes,
Most be carry a aboue by a Flarmonically
circulatins Fluid, as well as che Planets,
and chus Wve Phoud have Portices Contrary
corortices, Which is verv absurd. 2. This
Suppolicion is noc ouly unrealonable, bue
dilaoreeable co che unitorm simplicity of
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