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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 142, page id 797370323:0300
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Cravitation, that an realonable Person
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corer, thac whatloever Wras Matter ol
Fact, vec thus Position ot ours ras the
chemost simple and casie, and lookd most
lihre the Efects oF Wisdom and Delion:
For here onc linsle Larr, accounts For all
che rarious Motions and Appearances ol
the Celestial Bodies. Thusthen this great
and glorious Body is fixt, likre a porvertul
and a kindly Monarch on hus Throne,
dictributins Lioht, Warmth, and Lite in
plencitul PHusion, t0 alI his Curroundins
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nearest have noc t0o much, nor the re-
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