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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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Distances,
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the Plane
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ot satural melision
irom che Appearances ot cheMocions siven
and chentrom chele Poersto accoune tor
alI che rect.
DXLIV. The obrious Appearances ot
cohering Bodies are chus, ero very mooch
Well polistid, plain Bodies, put rogethei
Will trmly cohere even in an exhrausted
Reccirer, erhich Phons eridenely chac cheir
Cohesion is owins, neicherto che Graviey, nor
eo any ocher Properer ot che Air; aII la-
line, crystalline, and moltmineral Bodies
break in very (mooch and plain, or ac lealt
concruent Surtaces; and univertally almost
all hard and very compaet Bodies, breal
Wich surtaces, nhich immediacely uxon
che Separarion, appear wrhicictu, wrhich is
an Pvidence, chac chouph che Surtaces bc
very (mall, vec chey are very lnooth and
Polistid, For ouly innumerabile licele po.
listrd Surtaces, are tc co reftect plencituity
aII kinds oF RayS, Whereby whice Co:
loursare producd. No chele APPCaraM.
ces ot cohering Bodies, do naturally lead us
eo imagine, char one necellary Condirion
comasd Cohesion, is che plainnels, or ac least
Congruicu
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