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conclude with due Respects to Learning and all learned Men.
GO then, little Book, into this ungrateful World, and take your Lot
amongst Men of many Tempers; and if chance be, you meet with bad
Treatment, it's no more than what your Betters have been so served, and
rnuch worse, before you.
Leigh in Essex,
October 30th, 1732.
Ad ZOILUM.
Dente Theonino quid carpis, Zoile? Nostra
Si tibi displaceant, fac meliora, precor.
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THE
CONTENTS
§. I. Of Matter and Motion.
1. MATTER and MOTION the two Grand Subjects of all Physical Studies.
2. A PHAENOMENON is any Report of any of our Senses concerning
external Objects.
3. Natural Philosophy teaches us the common and ordinary Laws of
Nature, whereby such and such Phaenomena are produced; and when
any Phaenomenon is agreeable to those Laws, it is then called a Natural
Phaenomenon; and otherwise it is called a Supernatural one, or a
Miracle.
4. Of Matter and its Substance, and how far our Knowledge can
possibly reach in that Affair.
5. Of its three General Properties, Extension, Impenetrability, and
Divisibility, which are all inseparable Qualities of Matter.
6. First, Of Magnitude, and wherein that consists.
7. Secondly, Of Solidity and the Nature of it.
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