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Rh great which form an Angle infinitely little? a right Line, which is a right Line long as it is finite, by changing infinitely little its Direction, becomes an infinite Curve; and that a Curve may become infinitely les than another Curve? there are infinite Squares, infinite Cubes; and Infinites of Infinites all greater than one another, and the lat but one of which, is nothing in Comparion of the lat? thee Things which at firt appear to be the utmot Exces of Frenzy, are in reality an Effort of the Subtilty and Extent of the human Mind, and the Art of finding Truths, which till then had been unknown. o bold Edifice is even founded on imple Ideas. The Buines is to meaure the Diagonal of a Square, to give the Area of a Curve, to find the quare Root of a Number, which has, none in common Arithmetic. After all, the Imagination ought not to be tartled any more at o many Orders of Infinites,

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