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Rh  to them. But then thee finite Exponents are found by the help of Fluxions. Whatever therefore is got by uch Exponents and Proportions is to be acribed to Fluxions: which mut therefore be previouly undertood. And what are thee Fluxions? The Velocities of evanecent Increments And what are thee ame evanecent Increments? They are neither finite Quantities, nor Quantities infinitely mall, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the Ghots of departed Quantities?

XXXVI. Men too often impoe on themelves and others, as if they conceived and undertood things expreed by Signs, when in truth they have no Idea, ave only of the very Signs themelves. And there are ome grounds to apprehend that this may be the preent Cae. The Velocities of evanecent or nacent Quantities are uppoed to be expreed, both by finite Lines of a determinate Magnitude, and by Algebraical Notes or Signs: but I upect that many who, perhaps never having examined the matter, take it for granted,