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All The Characters Of The Passion Agree To The Year 34; And That Is The Only Year To Which They All Agree.

No Being Exists Or Can Exist Which Is Not Related To Space In Some Way. God Is Everywhere, Created Minds Are Somewhere, And Body Is In The Space That It Occupies; And Whatever Is Neither Everywhere Nor Anywhere Does Not Exist. And Hence It Follows That Space Is An Effect Arising From The First Existence Of Being, Because When Any Being Is Postulated, Space Is Postulated.

His Epitaph: Who, By Vigor Of Mind Almost Divine, The Motions And Figures Of The Planets, The Paths Of Comets, And The Tides Of The Seas First Demonstrated.

The Best And Safest Way Of Philosophising Seems To Be, First To Enquire Diligently Into The Properties Of Things, And To Establish Those Properties By Experiences [experiments] And Then To Proceed Slowly To Hypotheses For The Explanation Of Them. For Hypotheses Should Be Employed Only In Explaining The Properties Of Things, But Not Assumed In Determining Them; Unless So Far As They May Furnish Experiments.

. . . Newton Was An Unquestioning Believer In An All-wise Creator Of The Universe, And In His Own Inability - Like The Boy On The Seashore - To Fathom The Entire Ocean In All Its Depths. He Therefore Believed That There Were Not Only Many Things In Heaven Beyond His Philosophy, But Plenty On Earth As Well, And He Made It His Business To Understand For Himself What The Majority Of Intelligent Men Of His Time Accepted Without Dispute (to Them It Was As Natural As Common Sense) - The Traditional Account Of The Creation.