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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 132, page id 797370323:0290
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Planeis, the Situation of cheir Peribelia
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DumenE, Fince We know noc che Nature
EF Cheir Inhabitants, nor ot their Nlatural
Productions: But this re may conclude,
Fince it is oF notable IIsC tO one oF the
Planets, ic cannot be amils to any oF em,
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Sun, alI ehe Planets, and cheir Satellits,
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more aboue their omn Axes, the Axe ot
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