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28  his Method, than accurate in examining his Principles.

XVIII. It is curious to oberve, what ubtilty and skill this great Genius employs to truggle with an inuperable Difficulty; and through what Labyrinths he endeavours to ecape the Doctrine of Infiniteimals; which as it intrudes upon him whether he will or no, o it is admitted and embraced by others without the leat repugnance. Leibnitz and his Followers in their calculus differentialis making no manner of cruple, firt to uppoe, and econdly to reject Quantities infinitely mall: with what clearnes in the Apprehenion and jutnes in the reaoning, any thinking Man, who is not prejudiced in favour of thoe things, may eaily dicern. The Notion or Idea of an infiniteimal Quantity, as it is an Object imply apprehended by the Mind, hath been already conidered. I hall now only oberve as to the method of getting rid of uch Quantities, that it is done without the leat Ceremony. As in Fluxions