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Rh Alkalies and ubtile Matter; but Attraction prevails even in Chymitry among the Englih. very Eence of Things is totally chang'd. You neither are agreed upon the Definition of the Soul, nor on that of Matter. Decartes, as I oberv'd in my lat, maintains that the Soul is the ame Thing with Thought, and Mr. Locke has given a pretty good Proof of the contrary.

aerts farther, that Extenion alone conitutes Matter, but Sir Iaac adds Solidity to it. furiouly contradictory are thee Opinions! Non notrum inter vos tantas componere lites., Eclog. III.

'Tis not for us to end uch great Diputes.

This famous Newton, this Detroyer of the Carteian Sytem, died in March Anno 1727. His Countrymen honour'd him in his Life-Time, and interr'd him as