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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 131, page id 797370323:0289
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OF chese chree chings, ot Elliptick Orbits;
the Sicuation oFthe sun in the onc of the
Loci, and the Coincidence ot the Planes,
OF che Orbits, Wich chac ot the Eclip-
tick, cond have been thekHect oE Chance
and Calualer. Or chac it as rithout
Detion or C ounsel. No certainly, FOr
the Advantases chereby arisIns LO OUF
Farth in particular, are crident; For chere-
by, che colder and more Northern Places
ot our Clobe, are broushe lome hundreds
ot thouland Miles, nearer the sun in
Wincer, chan in Summer; wrtich CannOE
huc be oF lome ulc to thole Places, chat
by che natural Course of the Rarth, acc
deprir d ot the benion Intuence oF chc
Sun ac that Scalon. Nour chis Bencte
rond be constant il che Place of the
Peribelium did not chanse; but since
thac is noc constant, the other is not du-
rable, buc cemporary. But chis chansc
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