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Rh foraw that its very Name wou'd offend; and therefore this Philoopher in more Places than one of his Books, gives the Reader ome Caution about it. He bids him beware of confounding this Name with what the Ancients call'd occult Qualities; but to be atisfied with knowing that there is in all Bodies a central Force which acts to the utmot Limits of the Univere, according to the invariable Laws of Mechanicks.

urpriing, after the olemn Protetations Sir Iaac made, that uch eminent Men as Mr. Sorin and Mr. de Fontenelle, hould have imputed to this great Philoopher the verbal and chimerical Way of Reaoning of the Aritotelians; Mr. Sorin in the Memoirs of the Academy of 1709, and Mr. de Fontenelle in the very Elogium of Sir Iaac Newton.

of the French, the Learned and others, have repeated this Reproach. Thee are for ever crying out, why did he not imploy the Word Impulion, which is o well undertood, rather than