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76 the Force and Deign of the foregoing Remarks, and purue them till further in your own Meditations, I hall ubjoin the following Queries.

Query I. Whether the Object of Geometry be not the Proportions of aignable Extenions? And whether, there be any need of conidering Quantities either infinitely great or infinitely mall? Qu. 2. Whether the end of Geometry be not to meaure aignable finite Extenion? And whether this practical View did not firt put Men on the tudy of Geometry?

Qu. 3. Whether the mitaking the Object and End of Geometry hath not created needles Difficulties, and wrong Puruits in that Science? Qu. 4. Whether Men may properly be aid to proceed in a cientific Method, without clearly conceiving the Object they are converant about, the End propoed, and the Method by which it is purued? Qu. 5. Whe-