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Rh there be other Fluxions, which Fluxions of Fluxions are called econd Fluxions. And the Fluxions of thee econd Fluxions are called third Fluxions: and oon, fourth, fifth, ixth, &c. ad infinitum. Now as our Sene is trained and puzzled with the perception of Objects extremely minute, even o the Imagination, which Faculty derives from Sene, is very much trained and puzzled to frame clear Ideas of the leat Particles of time, or the leat Increments generated therein: and much more o to comprehend the Moments, or thoe Increments of the flowing Quantities in tatu nacenti, in their very firt origin or beginning to exit, before they become finite Particles. And it eems till more difficult, to conceive the abtracted Velocities of uch nacent imperfect Entities. But the Velocities of the Velocities, the econd, third, fourth and fifth Velocities, &c. exceed, if I mitake not, all Humane Underftanding. The further the Mind analyeth and purueth thee fugitive Ideas, the more it is lot and bewildered; the Objects, at firt fleeting and minute, oon vanihing out of ight. tainly