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Rh discovery of Mr, Newton, that all bodies gravitate to one another, which may be counted as the basis of natural philosophy; which, of what use it is to the understanding of the great frame of our solar system, he has to the astonishment of the learned world shown; and how much further it would guide us in other things, if rightly pursued, is not yet known. Our Saviour’s great rule, that “we should love our neighbor as ourselves,” is such a fundamental truth for the regulating human society, that I think by that alone one might without difficulty determine all the eases and doubts in social morality. These and such as these are the truths we should endeavor to find out, and store our minds with. Which leads me to another thing in the conduct of the understanding that is no less necessary, viz.

44. Bottoming.—To accustom ourselves, in any question proposed, to examine and find out upon what it bottoms. Most of the difficulties that come in our way, when well considered and traced, lead us lo some