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Rh  in any Sene a econd or third Fluxion eems an obcure Mytery. The incipient Celerity of an incipient Celerity, the nacent Augment of a nacent Augment, i. e. of a thing which hath no Magnitude: Take it in which light you pleae, the clear Conception of it will, if I mitake not, be found impoible, whether it be o or no I appeal to the trial of every thinking Reader. And if a econd Fluxion be inconceivable, what are we to think of third, fourth, fifth Fluxions, and o onward without end?

V. The foreign Mathematicians are uppoed by ome, even of our own, to proceed in a manner, les accurate perhaps and geometrical, yet more intelligible. Intead of flowing Quantities and their Fluxions, they conider the variable finite Quantities, as increaing or diminihing by the continual Addition or Subduction of infinitely mall Quantities. Intead of the Velocities wherewith Increments are generated, they conider the Increments or Decrements themelves, which they call Differences, and which are poed