By Such Deductions The Law Of Gravitation

Therefore, The Causes Assigned To Natural Effects Of The Same Kind Must Be, So Far As Possible, The Same.

Our Present Work Sets Forth Mathematical Principles Of Philosophy. For The Basic Problem Of Philosophy Seems To Be To Discover The Forces Of Nature From The Phenomena Of Motions And Then To Demonstrate The Other Phenomena From These Forces. It Is To These Ends That The General Propositions In Books 1 And 2 Are Directed, While In Book 3 Our Explanation Of The System Of The World Illustrates These Propositions.

A Good Watch May Serve To Keep A Recconing At Sea For Some Days And To Know The Time Of A Celestial Observ[at]ion: And For This End A Good Jewel Watch May Suffice Till A Better Sort Of Watch Can Be Found Out. But When The Longitude At Sea Is Once Lost, It Cannot Be Found Again By Any Watch.

It Seems Probable To Me That God, In The Beginning, Formed Matter In Solid, Massy, Hard, Impenetrable, Moveable Particles, Of Such Sizes And Figures, And With Such Other Properties, And In Such Proportions To Space, As Most Conduced To The End For Which He Formed Them; And That These Primitive Particles, Being Solids, Are Incomparably Harder Than Any Porous Bodies Compounded Of Them, Even So Very Hard As Never To Wear Or Break In Pieces; No Ordinary Power Being Able To Divide What God Had Made One In The First Creation.

We Are Not To Consider The World As The Body Of God: He Is An Uniform Being, Void Of Organs, Members, Or Parts; And They Are His Creatures, Subordinate To Him, And Subservient To His Will.