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54 Man who can diect with Art, may, nevertheles, be ignorant in your Art of computing  Even o you may both, notwithtanding your peculiar Skill in your repective Arts, be alike unqualified to decide upon Logic, or Metaphyics, or Ethics, or Religion. And this would be true, even admitting that you undertood your own Principles and could demontrate them.

XXXIV. If it is aid, that Fluxions may be expounded or expreed by finite Lines proportional to them: Which finite Lines, as they may be ditinctly conceived and known and reaoned upon, o they may be ubtituted for the Fluxions, and their mutual Relations or Proportions be conidered as the Proportions of Fluxions: By which means the Doctrine becomes clear and ueful. I anwer that if, in order to arrive at thee finite Lines proportional to the Fluxions, there be certain Steps made ue of which are obcure and inconceivable, be thoe finite Lines themelves ever o clearly conceived, it mut nevertheles be acknowledged, that your proceed-