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 many different Ways, my Choice of thee I hall aign can be grounded on nothing but mere Conjecture; but beides thee Conjectures becoming Reaons, when they are not only the mot probable that can be drawn from the Nature of things, but the only Means we can have of dicovering Truth, the Conequences I mean to deduce from mine will not be merely conjectural, ince, on the Principles I have jut etablihed, it is impoible to form any other Sytem, that would not upply me with the ame Reults, and from which I might not draw the ame Concluions.

This will authorize me to be the more concie in my Reflections on the Manner, in which the lape of Time makes amends for the little Veriimilitude of Events; on the urpriing Power of very trivial Caues, when they act without Intermiion; on the Impoibility there is on